Minority male mating advantage was tested in wild type strains of Drosophila ananassae through multiple-choice experiments. Mating success of two types of flies present in five different ratios was scored by direct observation in an Elens-Wattiaux mating chamber. We found no evidence for minority male mating advantage in wild type strains of D. ananassae. The relative mating success of two type...

Jennings"l discovery of a system of multiple mating types in Paramecium bursaria in 1938 followed closely Sonneborn's2 initial description of mating types in P. aurelia. The detailed and brilliant experimental analyses carried out by Jennings3 and directed toward an understanding of mating type inheritance and determination in this organism did not result in a satisfactory explanation for the v...

The genome has a non-random spatial distribution in the cell nucleus. In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, it has been shown that the centromeres, telomeres and the mating-type region localize to the nuclear membrane (NM), the former by attaching to the spindle pole body (SPB). In addition, reporter genes inserted into these areas are transcriptionally repressed because of the formation of specialized...