Influence of Age and Feeding on the Success of Mating in a Tsetse Fly Species

THE act of mating affects insect reproduction in several ways 1 . First, it may be a necessary stimulus for the initiation of oocyte development, as is found in the bedbug, Cimex lectularious 2 . Second, the act of mating may set in motion an accelerated rate of egg maturation 3 . Third, copulation...

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Published in:Nature (London) 1968-08, Vol.219 (5157), p.962-963
Main Author: ODHIAMBO, THOMAS R
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age Factors
Analysis of Variance
Animals
Behavior, Animal
Female
Humanities and Social Sciences
letter
Male
multidisciplinary
Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Reproduction
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
Sexual Behavior, Animal
Tsetse Flies - physiology
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Summary:THE act of mating affects insect reproduction in several ways 1 . First, it may be a necessary stimulus for the initiation of oocyte development, as is found in the bedbug, Cimex lectularious 2 . Second, the act of mating may set in motion an accelerated rate of egg maturation 3 . Third, copulation may induce oviposition rather than affect the processes leading to the attainment of full-term eggs; for example, in the mosquito, Aedes aegypti , blood-fed virgin females produce about the same number of mature eggs as mated females, but most of these are not deposited 4 . Finally, the act of mating may not have any apparent effect at all, either on egg development or egg deposition: at least one recent example of this, that of the cotton stainer, Dysdercus fastiatus , is well documented 5 .
ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/219962a0