Final set of notes

This is the last set of notes i'm going to write up and post.

I like this paper a lot, its very simple short and yet provides some very strong evidence. Its probably been entirely disproved by now,seen as though it was written in 1980, but i can't find anything else on it so im citing it anyway.

Partridge, L. 1980, MAte Choice increases a component of offsrping fitness in fruit flies. Nature, 283, pp290-291.

A very useful and important short "letters" article. This provides basal empirical evidence that in Drosophila, offspring produced from a "choosy" mating are consistently better competitors during larval development than offspring produced by random matings.

The difference was small but consistent.

Need to go and write things on my dissertation now.