1. Preface

   Preface Pages: 1 - 3

2. Drosophila Melanogaster, Drosophila Simulans: so Similar yet so Different

   • Pierre Capy
   • Patricia Gibert

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 15

3. How Two Afrotropical Endemics Made Two Cosmopolitan Human Commensals: the Drosophila Melanogaster–D. Simulans Palaeogeographic Riddle

   • Daniel Lachaise
   • Jean-François Silvain

   OriginalPaper Pages: 17 - 39

4. Mitochondrial DNA in the Drosophila Melanogaster Complex

   • Michel Solignac

   OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 50

5. Wolbachia Infections in Drosophila Melanogaster and D. Simulans: Polymorphism and Levels of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility

   • Hervé Merçot
   • Sylvain Charlat

   OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 59

6. Historicity and the Population Genetics of Drosophila Melanogaster and D. Simulans

   • Michel Veuille
   • Emmanuelle Baudry
   • Emmanuelle Gravot

   OriginalPaper Pages: 61 - 70

7. Patterns of Microsatellite Variability in the Drosophila Melanogaster Complex

   • Bettina Harr
   • Christian Schlötterer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 77

8. Molecular Polymorphism in Drosophila Melanogaster and D. Simulans: what have we Learned from Recent Studies?

   • Sylvain Mousset
   • Nicolas Derome

   OriginalPaper Pages: 79 - 86

9. The Sex-Ratio Trait and its Evolution in Drosophila Simulans: A Comparative Approach

   • D. Jutier
   • N. Derome
   • C. Montchamp-Moreau

   OriginalPaper Pages: 87 - 99

10. A Reanalysis of Protein Polymorphism in Drosophila Melanogaster, D. Simulans, D. Sechellia and D. Mauritiana: Effects of Population Size and Selection

    • Richard A. Morton
    • Madhu Choudhary
    • Rama S. Singh

    OriginalPaper Pages: 101 - 114

11. Transposable Element Dynamics in Two Sibling Species: Drosophila Melanogaster and Drosophila Simulans

    • Cristina Vieira
    • Christian Biémont

    OriginalPaper Pages: 115 - 123

12. Wanderings of Hobo: A Transposon in Drosophila Melanogaster and its Close Relatives

    • Ian A. Boussy
    • Masanobu Itoh

    OriginalPaper Pages: 125 - 136

13. Mitotic and Polytene Chromosomes: Comparisons Between Drosophila Melanogaster and Drosophila Simulans

    • Sylvie Aulard
    • Laurence Monti
    • Françoise Lemeunier

    OriginalPaper Pages: 137 - 150

14. Comparative Life Histories and Ecophysiology of Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans

    • Jean R. David
    • Roland Allemand
    • Brigitte Moreteau

    OriginalPaper Pages: 151 - 163

15. Comparative Analysis of Morphological Traits Among Drosophila Melanogaster and D. Simulans: Genetic Variability, Clines and Phenotypic Plasticity

    • P. Gibert
    • P. Capy
    • J.R. David

    OriginalPaper Pages: 165 - 179

16. Ecological and Genetic Interactions in Drosophila–parasitoids Communities: A Case Study with D. Melanogaster, D. Simulans and their Common Leptopilina Parasitoids in Southe-astern France

    • F. Fleury
    • N. Ris
    • M. Boulétreau

    OriginalPaper Pages: 181 - 194

17. Relations Between Cuticular Hydrocarbon (HC) Polymorphism, Resistance Against Desiccation and Breeding Temperature; A Model for HC Evolution in D. Melanogaster and D. Simulans

    • Jacques-Deric Rouault
    • Charlotte Marican
    • Jean-Marc Jallon

    OriginalPaper Pages: 195 - 212

18. Molecular Analysis of Circadian Clocks in Drosophila simulans

    • Anthony S. Rogers
    • Ezio Rosato
    • Charalambos P. Kyriacou

    OriginalPaper Pages: 213 - 222

19. A Mutation in Drosophila simulans that Lengthens the Circadian Period of Locomotor Activity

    • A.S. Rogers
    • Stefan A. Escher
    • C.P. Kyriacou

    OriginalPaper Pages: 223 - 232

20. Sperm Size Evolution in Drosophila: Inter- and Intraspecific Analysis

    • Dominique Joly
    • Abraham Korol
    • Eviatar Nevo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 233 - 244

21. The Nature of Genetic Variation in Sex and Reproduction-related Genes Among Sibling Species of the Drosophila melanogaster Complex

    • Rob J. Kulathinal
    • Rama S. Singh

    OriginalPaper Pages: 245 - 252

22. Genetics of Hybrid Inviability and Sterility in Drosophila: Dissection of Introgression of D. simulans Genes in D. melanogaster Genome

    • Kyoichi Sawamura
    • Timothy L. Karr
    • Masa-Toshi Yamamoto

    OriginalPaper Pages: 253 - 260

23. A New Hybrid Rescue Allele in Drosophila melanogaster

    • Daniel A. Barbash
    • John Roote
    • Michael Ashburner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 261 - 266

24. Male-Specific Expression of the Fruitless Protein is not Common to all Drosophila Species

    • Daisuke Yamamoto
    • Kazue Usui-Aoki
    • Seigo Shima

    OriginalPaper Pages: 267 - 272

25. Genetic Basis of Sexual Isolation in Drosophila melanogaster

    • Aya Takahashi
    • Chau-Ti Ting

    OriginalPaper Pages: 273 - 284

26. Why There is a One-way Crossability Between D. melanogaster and D. simulans?

    • Bruno Moulin
    • Thierry Aubin
    • Jean-Marc Jallon

    OriginalPaper Pages: 285 - 292

27. Authors Index

    Authors Index Pages: 293 - 293