funded by the National Key Research and Development Project of China(2021YFD1301000).
Sex-determination pathways are extremely diverse.Understanding the mechanism of sex determination in insects is important for genetic manipulation of the pest population and for breeding of economically valuable insec...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2019YFD1002100);China Agriculture Research System of MOF and MARA(CARS-26).
Insect gut microbiota has been reported to participate in regulating host multiple biological processes including metabolism and reproduction.However,the corresponding molecular mechanisms remain largely unknown.Recen...
The authors thank Dr.Simon Baxter from the University of Melbourne(previously University of Adelaide)for facilitating the use of yellowr line Qfly colony.This research was conducted as part of the SITplus collaborative fruit fly program.Projeet Raising Q-ly Sterile Inseet Tech-nique to World Standard(HG14033)is funded by the Hort Frontiers Fruit Fly Fund,part of the Hort Frontiers strategic partnership initiative developed by Hort Innovation,with co-investment from Macquarie University and contributions from the Australian Government.JS was supported by a Macquarie University iRTP Scholarship.
Multiple mating by females,polyandry,is common in insects,including in tephritid fruit flies.Female insects that remate commonly store sperm of multiple males.How the sperm of different males contribute to paternity i...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFD0300702);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(China)(KJYQ201902,KJJQ201803).
In addition to sperm,some accessory substances transferred to females during copulation act as nuptial gifts by passing on valuable nutrients in many insect species.The nutritional status of the males can thus have a ...
The study was financially supported by the Slovenian Research Agency(the research core funding No.P 1-0255 B,the project No.J 1-8142);the Research Support Foundation of the Federal District(FAP-DF)(the project No.193.000.978/2015).
Multimodal communication in solitary stinkbugs enables them to meet,mate and copulate.Many plant-dwelling species exchange information during the calling phase of mating behavior using substrate-borne vibratory signal...
This experiments where funded with PICT 2015 N°0191 awarded to SA.
Seminal gifts range from important material donations to items that provide little direct benefit to females.Promiscuous,female silk corn flies Euxesta eluta expel and consume male ejaculates immediately after mating....
Dear editor, Mimetic protection is most effective when mimics are relatively rare (Pfennig et al.,2001). In polymorphic damselfly species, male-colored female morphs may avoid costly male mating attempts because they ...
Lekking males aggregate to attract females and contribute solely to egg fer- tilization, without any further parental care. Evolutionary theory therefore predicts them to be nonchoosy toward their mates, because any l...
Pheromones play pivotal roles in the reproductive behavior of moths, most prominently for the mate finding of male moths. Accordingly, the molecular basis for the detection of female-released pheromones by male moths ...
In butterflies, male reproductive success is highly related to the quality and the size of the spermatophore transferred to the female. The spermatophore is a capsule produced by the male during copulation, which in m...