Sperm precedence and sperm storage in multiply mated red flour beetles

1998 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 365-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara M. Lewis ◽  
Emily Jutkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Sperm Storage ◽  
Sperm Precedence ◽  
Flour Beetles ◽  
Red Flour Beetles

scholarly journals Sublethal Exposure to Phosphine Decreases Offspring Production in Strongly Phosphine Resistant Female Red Flour Beetles, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst)

PLoS ONE ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. e53356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew W. Ridley ◽  
Seymour Magabe ◽  
David I. Schlipalius ◽  
Michelle A. Rafter ◽  
Patrick J. Collins
Keyword(s):  
Tribolium Castaneum ◽  
Sublethal Exposure ◽  
Offspring Production ◽  
Flour Beetles ◽  
Red Flour Beetles

scholarly journals Postcopulatory, prezygotic isolation: intraspecific and interspecific sperm precedence in Tribolium spp., flour beetles

Heredity ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa Robinson ◽  
Norman A Johnson ◽  
Michael J Wade
Keyword(s):  
Sperm Precedence ◽  
Prezygotic Isolation ◽  
Flour Beetles

EFFECTS OF SUB-LETHAL EXPOSURES TO MALATHION OR CHLORPYRIFOS-METHYL ON OFFSPRING PRODUCTION BY SOME STORED-PRODUCT BEETLES

1990 ◽  
Vol 122 (6) ◽  
pp. 1187-1191 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.D.G. White ◽  
R.N. Sinha
Keyword(s):  
Tribolium Castaneum ◽  
Prolonged Exposure ◽  
Female Survivors ◽  
Offspring Production ◽  
Flour Beetles ◽  
Grain Beetles ◽  
Selection For ◽  
Filter Papers ◽  
Ground Wheat ◽  
Red Flour Beetles

AbstractExposure of adult rusty grain beetles, Cryptolestes ferrugineus (Stephens), saw-toothed grain beetles, Oryzaephilus surinamensis (L.), and red flour beetles, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst), to filter papers treated with the organophosphorus insecticides malathion or chlorpyrifos-methyl often affected offspring production in survivors. Groups of five male and five female survivors were placed on ground wheat at 30°C and C. ferrugineus and O. surinamensis adults produced fewer offspring with prolonged exposure to chlorpyrifos-methyl; malathion had no effect. Tribolium castaneum adults produced significantly more offspring with increasing exposure to both malathion and chlorpyrifos-methyl indicating stimulation of oviposition or a selection for increased fitness in survivors.

scholarly journals Extreme fertilization bias towards freshly inseminated sperm in a species exhibiting prolonged female sperm storage

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 172195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clelia Gasparini ◽  
Emma Daymond ◽  
Jonathan P. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Insemination ◽  
Poecilia Reticulata ◽  
Sperm Storage ◽  
Sperm Precedence ◽  
Control Potential ◽  
Complete Dominance ◽  
Poeciliid Fish ◽  
Behavioural Interactions ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Reproductive Cycles

The storage of sperm by females across successive reproductive cycles is well documented in internal fertilizers, yet the fate of stored sperm when they compete with ‘new’ sperm to fertilize a female's eggs has rarely been considered. This gap in our understanding is likely due to the logistical difficulties of controlling behavioural interactions during or after mating, which in turn may influence how many sperm are inseminated and how stored sperm are ultimately used during successive bouts of sperm competition with freshly inseminated sperm. Here, we use artificial insemination (AI) in guppies ( Poecilia reticulata ), a polyandrous live-bearing poeciliid fish exhibiting prolonged sperm storage by females, to overcome these challenges. The use of AI enables us to control potential differential maternal effects (e.g. behaviourally mediated cryptic female choice) and specifically test for post-copulatory paternity biases that favour either stored or fresh sperm when they compete to fertilize eggs. Our paternity analyses revealed the almost complete dominance of freshly inseminated sperm over stored sperm, supporting previous studies reporting similar patterns following natural matings across successive brood cycles. However, our use of AI, which excluded behavioural interactions between males and females, most likely generated a far stronger pattern of fresh sperm precedence compared with those reported in previous studies, possibly implicating ‘cryptic' forms of selection by females that may sometimes bolster the success of stored sperm.

Patterns of sperm use in two populations of Red-sided Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) with long-term female sperm storage

2014 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher R. Friesen ◽  
Robert T. Mason ◽  
Stevan J. Arnold ◽  
Suzanne Estes
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Paternity ◽  
Sperm Storage ◽  
Female Reproductive Tract ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Order Effects ◽  
Thamnophis Sirtalis ◽  
Sperm Precedence ◽  
Experimental Population ◽  
Thamnophis Sirtalis Parietalis

Long-term sperm storage may contribute to postcopulatory sexual selection because it enhances the commingling of sperm from different males within the female reproductive tract, which is the prerequisite for sperm competition. Long-term sperm storage and multiple paternity has been documented in snakes, but the identity of the last potential father is usually unknown in studies demonstrating multiple paternity. Here we present the first study in Red-sided Garter Snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis (Say in James, 1832)) to use experimental population crosses to assess stored sperm usage, mate-order effects, and the potential for interpopulational gametic isolation. We found a high rate of multiple paternity indicative of ubiquitous long-term sperm storage in this system, and observed last-male sperm precedence in all families (n = 66). Postzygotic isolation was absent, and we observed only a weak asymmetry in pattern of sperm precedence in our population crosses.

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