Physiological determinants of male mating performance in aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae)

Title:

Physiological determinants of male mating performance in aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae)

Creator:

Hales, Dinah F.

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:4fa61b7a-e941-4658-8ce6-631d7f980ac0
uuid:4fa61b7a-e941-4658-8ce6-631d7f980ac0

Subject:

Aphids, Myzus persicae, sexual strategies, sperm economy, ejaculate size, male maturation, and sperm availability

Type:

article, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

When investigating sexual strategies of aphids, it is necessary to set up multiple replicates to compensate for the small number of eggs laid per female. Genetic variation among replicates can be minimised if members of the same clone are used, but problems can arise unless the participants are also physiologically equivalent. A series of experiments on Myzus persicae (Sulzer) was performed to investigate aspects of male maturation and semen transfer that should be considered in planning or interpreting experiments on aphid sexual strategies.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Source:

European Journal of Entomology | 2005 Volume:102 | Number:4

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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