Research Article
Cuticular Hydrocarbon Content that Affects Male Mate Preference of Drosophila melanogaster from West Africa
Table 1
Relative quantity (% area) of the GC peaks designated in Figure
3. Sample sizes are shown under the strain names. Mean ± S.D. Values are shown.
| Strain | Peak #1 7:C23a (%) | Peak #2 C23a (%) | Peak #3 7,11:C25a (%) | Peak #4 5:C25a (%) | Peak #5 7,11:C27a (%) | Peak #6 5,9:C27a (+2-methylhexacosane) (%) |
| TW1 () | 2.65 ± 0.07 | 6.44 ± 0.11 | 10.96 ± 1.25 | 0.00 ± 0.00 | 46.77 ± 0.61 | 2.22 ± 0.08 | Mel6 () | 0.00 ± 0.00 | 0.00 ± 0.00 | 0.00 ± 0.00 | 2.67 ± 0.05 | 7.54 ± 6.53 | 58.77 ± 5.18 | BZ1 () | 2.46 ± 0.31 | 8.64 ± 0.99 | 3.95 ± 0.07 | 0.00 ± 0.00 | 52.11 ± 0.33 | 3.06 ± 0.42 | Mel6 × TW1 F1 () | 0.00 ± 0.00 | 4.43 ± 0.09 | 1.85 ± 0.02 | 1.98 ± 0.06 | 25.60 ± 0.34 | 19.55 ± 0.30 |
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aCuticular hydrocarbon components inferred from the previous studies [28, 29].
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