The Effects of Selective Breeding

and Sexual Dimorphism on

Alcohol Tolerance Amongst
Multiple Generations of
Drosophila melanogaster

Alessandro Barlotta, Lexi

Pereira, Jack Putnam,
Devyn Walkowicz, and
Blake Weiner
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Block 1 Biotechnology
21 January 2019
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Figure 2: Courtship index of

group-housed males towards
mature, active females (Liu et.
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