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But Parker believes that our current ideas about mating systems may not be adequate to describe the ingenuity of evolution.
A finite number of unrelated parents are randomly selected from a natural population and are mated to produce progeny tests under a mating design such as factorial or diallel.
Its transcript levels are significantly upregulated in response to pheromone, but are unchanged in tec1Δ strains [ 6 ] ; that study notes, however, that in dig1Δ dig2Δ cells, fus1 is constitutively activated, and both mating and invasive growth are observed.
Reinforcement occasionally leaves a signature, called reproductive character displacement, in which mating characteristics have diverged between populations in areas of sympatry but not areas of allopatry (Figure 2) (the relationship between reinforcement and reproductive character displacement, and controversy over the definition of the latter, is reviewed in Howard 1993).
Wright's F statistic reveals differences between populations by calculating the reduction in heterozygosity that is expected after random mating between the two populations.