Cytoplasmic incompatibility in a rice planthopper
- 1 September 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Heredity
- Vol. 75 (5) , 345-348
- https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a109953
Abstract
The cytoplasmic inheritance of a certain factor controlling egg fertilization was found in the small brown planthopper, Laodelphax striatellus. Testcrosses revealed that reciprocal crosses between two different strains gave different results in egg development; embryogenesis normally occurred in one direction and did not occur in the other. The deposited eggs produced by the discordant pairs did not show any development in spite of successful copulation. Crosses in filial and backcross generations indicated the presence of certain maternally inherited agents. The present phenomenon is concluded to be reproductive cytoplasmic incompatibility, similar to that in Culex piplens, Aedes scutellaris, and Ephestia cautella.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Cytoplasmic Incompatibility: Occurrence in a Stored-product Pest Ephestia cautella11Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 1976