Female monogamy and its control in houseflies

Riemann, John G.; Moen, D.; Thorson, Barbara J.

doi:10.1016/0022-1910(67)90081-9

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“…The high daytime activity of males observed could be because of males searching for mating partners, as males are more aggressive in their mating behavior, given that their Þtness is optimized by multiple matings (Ragland and Sohal 1973), whereas females most often only mate once and therefore do not search for mating partners when they have been mated (Riemann et al 1967). The autocorrelation times for females were almost constant across all temperature treatments, which mean that the predictability, or a lack thereof, of female activity was the same for all temperature treatments.…”

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Temperature and Population Density Effects on Locomotor Activity of <I>Musca domestica</I> (Diptera: Muscidae)

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The behavior of ectotherm organisms is affected by both abiotic and biotic factors. However, a limited number of studies have investigated the synergistic effects on behavioral traits. This study examined the effect of temperature and density on locomotor activity of Musca domestica (L.). Locomotor activity was measured for both sexes and at four densities (with mixed sexes) during a full light and dark (L:D) cycle at temperatures ranging from 10 to 40ºC. Locomotor activity during daytime increased with temperature at all densities until reaching 30ºC and then decreased. Highdensity treatments significantly reduced the locomotor activity per fly, except at 15ºC. For both sexes, daytime activity also increased with temperature until reaching 30 and 35ºC for males and females, respectively, and thereafter decreased. Furthermore, males showed a significantly higher and more predictable locomotor activity than females. During nighttime, locomotor activity was considerably lower for all treatments. Altogether the results of the current study show that there is a significant interaction of temperature and density on daytime locomotor activity of M. domestica and that houseflies are likely to show significant changes in locomotor activity with change in temperature. BioOne (www.bioone.org) is a nonprofit, online aggregation of core research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. BioOne provides a sustainable online platform for over 170 journals and books published by nonprofit societies, associations, museums, institutions, and presses.Your use of this PDF, the BioOne Web site, and all posted and associated content indicates your acceptance of BioOne's Terms of Use, available at www.bioone.org/page/terms_of_use.Usage of BioOne content is strictly limited to personal, educational, and non-commercial use. Commercial inquiries or rights and permissions requests should be directed to the individual publisher as copyright holder. BEHAVIOR Temperature and Population Density Effects on Locomotor Activity ofMusca domestica (Diptera: Muscidae) ABSTRACT The behavior of ectotherm organisms is affected by both abiotic and biotic factors. However, a limited number of studies have investigated the synergistic effects on behavioral traits. This study examined the effect of temperature and density on locomotor activity of Musca domestica (L.). Locomotor activity was measured for both sexes and at four densities (with mixed sexes) during a full light and dark (L:D) cycle at temperatures ranging from 10 to 40ЊC. Locomotor activity during daytime increased with temperature at all densities until reaching 30ЊC and then decreased. Highdensity treatments signiÞcantly reduced the locomotor activity per ßy, except at 15ЊC. For both sexes, daytime activity also increased with temperature until reaching 30 and 35ЊC for males and females, respectively, and thereafter decreased. Furthermore, males showed a signiÞcantly higher and more predictable locomotor activity than females. During nighttime, locomotor activity ...

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Temperature and Population Density Effects on Locomotor Activity of <I>Musca domestica</I> (Diptera: Muscidae)

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“…Male insects are known to include products in their seminal fluids that have profound effects on female behavior and physiology (Riemann et al 1967;Baumann 1974;StanleySamuelson and Loher 1986;Wolfner 2002). Evidence suggests that these products may either reduce or increase female life span; while females in many insects are known to incur longevity costs as a result of mating, there are also many species in which females receive longevity benefits as a result of mating (reviewed by Ridley 1988;Arnqvist and Nilsson 2000).…”

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Female Life Span and Fertility Are Increased by the Ejaculates of Preferred Males

Wagner

Harper

2003

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Abstract. In animals with internal fertilization, sperm competition among males can favor the evolution of male ejaculate traits that are detrimental to females. Female mating preferences, in contrast, often favor traits in males that are beneficial to females, yet little is known about the effect of these preferences on the evolution of male ejaculates. A necessary condition for female preferences to affect the evolution of male ejaculate characteristics is that females select mates based on a trait correlated with ejaculate quality. Previous work has shown that females of the variable field cricket, Gryllus lineaticeps, prefer males that produce calling songs containing faster and longer chirps. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that females receive more beneficial ejaculates from preferred males. Females were placed on either a high-or a reduced-nutrition diet then mated twice to a male of known song phenotype. Females received only sperm and seminal fluid from males during these matings. There was no effect of male song phenotype on any fitness component for females on the high-nutrition diet. Reduced-nutrition females mated to males that produced preferred song types, however, lived longer, produced more eggs, produced more fertile eggs, and had a higher proportion of their eggs fertilized than those mated to other males. The life-span benefit was positively associated with male chirp duration, and the reproductive benefits were positively associated with male chirp rate. We explored two possible mechanisms for the life span and reproductive benefits. First, a path analysis suggested that part of the effect of male chirp duration on female life span may have been indirect; females mated to males that produced longer chirps showed delayed oviposition, and females that delayed oviposition lived longer. Males that produce longer chirps may thus transfer fewer or less potent oviposition stimulants to females in their seminal fluid. Second, there was a positive correlation between male chirp rate and the number of sperm transferred to females. The fertility benefit may thus have resulted from females receiving more sperm from males that produce faster chirps. Finally, there was a negative phenotypic correlation between male chirp rate and chirp duration, suggesting that females may have to trade off the life span and reproduction benefits when selecting a mate.

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“…Such costs may be common in animals with internal fertilization because females in these species regularly expose their physiology to male seminal fluid products . In many insects, for example, products contained in male seminal fluids reduce female receptivity to other males and stimulate rapid egg laying by females (Riemann et al 1967;Baumann 1974;StanleySamuelson and Loher 1986). Less is known about the effects of male seminal fluid products on female reproduction in other animals.…”

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Females Receive a Life-Span Benefit From Male Ejaculates in a Field Cricket

Wagner¹,

Kelley²,

Tucker³

et al. 2007

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Abstract. Mating has been found to be costly for females of some species because of toxic products that males transfer to females in their seminal fluid. Such mating costs seem paradoxical, particularly for species in which females mate more frequently than is necessary to fertilize their eggs. Indeed, some studies suggest that females may benefit from mating more frequently. The effect of male ejaculates on female life span and lifetime fecundity was experimentally tested in the variable field cricket, Gryllus lineaticeps. In field crickets, females will mate repeatedly with a given male and mate with multiple males. Females that were experimentally mated either repeatedly or multiply lived more than 32% longer than singly mated females. In addition, multiply mated females produced 98% more eggs than singly mated females. Because females received only sperm and seminal fluid from males in the experimental matings, these life-span and fecundity benefits may result from beneficial seminal fluid products that males transfer to females during mating. Mating benefits rather than mating costs may be common in many animals, particularly in species where female mate choice has a larger effect on male reproductive success than does the outcome of sperm competition.

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Female monogamy and its control in houseflies

Cited by 141 publications

References 8 publications

Temperature and Population Density Effects on Locomotor Activity of <I>Musca domestica</I> (Diptera: Muscidae)

Temperature and Population Density Effects on Locomotor Activity of <I>Musca domestica</I> (Diptera: Muscidae)

Female Life Span and Fertility Are Increased by the Ejaculates of Preferred Males

Females Receive a Life-Span Benefit From Male Ejaculates in a Field Cricket

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