Reduced transfer of male accessory gland proteins and monandry in female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.

We examined whether female Aedes aegypti (L.) mosquitoes would remate after they first mated with a male that was reared on a suboptimal larval diet and that as a result, transferred reduced amounts of male accessory gland proteins. Accessory gland proteins from males labeled with 3H leucine were not detected in females allowed to male mate with the labeled males after they first mated with either low diet or high diet males. The amount of the male accessory gland protein transferred by smaller, low diet males was adequate to terminate female receptivity, even after one gonotrophic cycle, and females of this species appear to be monogamous.