Reproductive interference between Aedes albopictus and Aedes flavopictus at a place of their origin.

Autor: Sultana A; Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan., Sunahara T; Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan., Tsurukawa C; Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan., Tuno N; Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Medical and veterinary entomology [Med Vet Entomol] 2021 Mar; Vol. 35 (1), pp. 59-67. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Aug 06.
DOI: 10.1111/mve.12469
Abstrakt: Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus and Aedes (Stegomyia) flavopictus are related species that have overlapping distributions from southern to central Japan. To understand how they interact, we studied reproductive interference between them, particularly focusing on the body size difference between the mating pair. Here, we examined the effects of conspecific, heterospecific and double mating (i.e. heterospecific mating followed by conspecific mating) on copulation duration, egg production and hatchability of eggs using mosquitoes that varied in body size. Females mated only with heterospecific males produced few viable eggs, indicating that post-mating isolation is almost complete. When mated with heterospecific males before conspecific mating, the production of viable eggs was lower than when mated only with conspecific males, revealing the occurrence of reproductive interference. The degree of reproductive interference was larger in Ae. flavopictus than in Ae. albopictus when the female size was small but did not differ between them when the female size was large. Aedes albopictus females appear to be able to distinguish Ae. flavopictus males from conspecific males and larger females are more successful in the rejection of heterospecific males. On the other hand, Ae. flavopictus were not able to discriminate between conspecific and heterospecific males.
(© 2020 The Royal Entomological Society.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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