Fig. 4. Courting behavior of partially rescued Poxn males. The histogram
at the top indicates the average number of recurved taste bristles per
prothoracic leg (gray), the percentage of males initiating courtship under
daylight (light blue) or red light (orange), and the percentage of copulating
males under daylight (dark blue) and red light (red) within the observation
period of 15 minutes (see Materials and Methods) for wild-type and partially
or completely rescued Poxn males of the genotypes indicated below.
The table at the bottom summarizes, as listed on the left, average latency
times with standard deviations in parentheses, number of tested couples in
single choice courting tests, and the rescue of phenotypic characters affected
by the Poxn
M22-B5 mutation. Complete and partial
rescue are indicated as + in dark-colored and as (+) in light-colored fields.
The degree of male fertility is indicated by +++, ++ and + if more than 65%,
35-65% and 5-35% of single crosses result in offspring. In one case, male
fertility is indicated as (-) because two out of 90 males produced a very low
number of offspring (two and 20 larvae). The number of taste bristles on the
male prothoracic leg is indicated with standard deviation in parenthesis, that
of taste bristles on the anterior wing margin is given as percentage of the
number observed in Oregon-R males.