Mating Frequency of Normal vs. Sterile Male Boll Weevils in the Laboratory13
- 1 August 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 69 (4) , 459-461
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/69.4.459
Abstract
Male Anthonomus grandis Boheman, treated with a combination of γ-irradiation and hempa in the diet mated ca. one-half as often as untreated males when paired individually with 4 virgin females/day. Examination of spermathecae showed that females mated to treated males contained an average of ca. ⅓ as much sperm as females mated to untreated males. Thus, considering spermathecal filling and mating frequency, treated males transferred only ca. ⅙ as much sperm as untreated males. When paired with females immediately after treatment, treated males inseminated an average of 18.3 ♀ before aspermia occurred; however, when treated males were first held without females for 10 days, they were capable of inseminating an average of only 4.1 ♀.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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