1972
DOI: 10.4039/ent104995-7
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DIFFERENCE IN RADIOSENSITIVITY OF TWO COLONIES OF TOBACCO BUDWORMS, HELIOTHIS VIRESCENS (LEPIDOPTERA: NOCTUIDAE)

Abstract: Sterility induced by gamma irradiation of the adult male tobacco budworm, Heliothis virescens (F.), was studied in two colonies, one was reared in the laboratory for more than 60 generations (laboratory strain) and the other reared for fewer than 9 generations (wild strain). When irradiated males were crossed with untreated females, the percentage egg hatch for each dose was lower with the laboratory than with the wild strain. When laboratory and wild females were crossed reciprocally with irradiated males, th… Show more

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“…Boller (1972) described a "production curve" for laboratory-reared insects, in which he predicted low reproductive performance in the first five generations with recovery in latter generations. A similar phenomenon has been described by Proshold & Bartell (1972) and Raulston (1975). Leppla et al (1980Leppla et al ( , 1983 described changes at colonisation as laboratory adaptations which were parabolic or nonlinear, characterised by rapid decline until the fourth generation, and total recovery by the sixth generation.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 82%
“…Boller (1972) described a "production curve" for laboratory-reared insects, in which he predicted low reproductive performance in the first five generations with recovery in latter generations. A similar phenomenon has been described by Proshold & Bartell (1972) and Raulston (1975). Leppla et al (1980Leppla et al ( , 1983 described changes at colonisation as laboratory adaptations which were parabolic or nonlinear, characterised by rapid decline until the fourth generation, and total recovery by the sixth generation.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 82%
“…In the tobacco budworm Heliothis virescens (F.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) even larger differences in the response to radiation were demonstrated between a long established laboratory colony and one that had only been in the laboratory for three to seven generations (Proshold and Bartell 1972). However, in this case following reciprocal crosses between irradiated males and non-irradiated females it was evident that the origin of the female determined the difference in egg hatch and not the origin of the irradiated male.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, this may be true only for recently colonized stocks of species that are amenable to a laboratory environment. In some Lepidoptera, long-term (adapted) laboratory strains have a higher mating frequency than recently colonized strains (Proshold and Bartell 1972;LaChance et al 1975).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%