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Table 3 Percentage of Type I pseudocopulation grouped by female taxon (all mate trials involving female D. m. baja , male D. m. mojavensis , etc.), for each mate group (CS = conspecific pairing, HT = heterotypic pairing HS = heterospecific pairing)

From: The role of aedeagus size and shape in failed mating interactions among recently diverged taxa in the Drosophila mojavensisspecies cluster

Species

%CS^

%HT^

%HS^

D. m. baja*

30.0

1.8

100.0

D. m. mojavensis*

0.0

25.0

75.0

D. m. sonorensis*

10.5

38.8

100.0

D. m. wrigleyi*

7.4

9.4

100.0

D. arizonae

0.0

-

16.3

  1. * = significant among mating group type (horizontal), ^ = significant among taxa (vertical) using Fisher’s Exact test for multiple pairwise comparisons with Bonferroni correction (α = 0.05). (“-” denotes no HT cross exists for D. arizonae.).
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BMC Ecology and Evolution

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