Literature DB >> 17795564

Repeated copulation and sperm precedence: paternity assurance for a male brooding water bug.

R L Smith.   

Abstract

Male giant water bugs (Abedus herberti Hidalgo) brood eggs attached to their backs by their mates. Brooders risk being "cuckolded" because females store sperm from previous matings. Males always copulate with females prior to receiving their eggs and mate repeatedly during oviposition. Experiments with a genetic marker reveal almost complete sperm precedence for the last male to mate with a female. The male's behavior therefore assures his paternity of the eggs he broods.

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Year:  1979        PMID： 17795564     DOI： 10.1126/science.205.4410.1029

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Science        ISSN： 0036-8075            Impact factor:   47.728


  8 in total

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2.  Male size, mating success, and breeding habitat partitioning in the whitespotted sawyer Monochamus scutellatus (Say) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).

Authors:  Austin L Hughes; Marianne K Hughes
Journal:  Oecologia       Date:  1982-11       Impact factor: 3.225

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Authors:  Leigh W Simmons; Nina Wedell
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4.  Temporal dynamics of competitive fertilization in social groups of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus) shed new light on avian sperm competition.

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5.  Studies of esterase 6 in Drosophila melanogaster. VI. ejaculate competitive abilities of males having null or active alleles.

Authors:  D G Gilbert; R C Richmond
Journal:  Genetics       Date:  1981-01       Impact factor: 4.562

6.  17 novel polymorphic microsatellite markers for the giant water bug, Abedus herberti (Belostomatidae).

Authors:  T S Daly-Engel; R L Smith; D S Finn; M E Knoderbane; I C Phillipsen; D A Lytle
Journal:  Conserv Genet Resour       Date:  2012-12       Impact factor: 0.973

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8.  Multiple paternity in the freshwater snail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum.

Authors:  Deanna M Soper; Lynda F Delph; Curt M Lively
Journal:  Ecol Evol       Date:  2012-11-16       Impact factor: 2.912
  8 in total

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