Why do male Callosobruchus maculatus beetles inseminate so many sperm?
By Paul Eady. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2004
112 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science
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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
- Martin Edvardsson
- D. Gwynne
- Michelle Hollander
- Tom Tregenza
- Mari Katvala
- J. Rönn
- Lindsay S. E. Snow
- M. Andrade
In Genetics
- Martin Edvardsson
- D. Gwynne
- Michelle Hollander
- Tom Tregenza
- Mari Katvala
- J. Rönn
- Lindsay S. E. Snow
- M. Andrade
In Insect Science
- Martin Edvardsson
- Tom Tregenza
- D. Gwynne
- Michelle Hollander
- Lindsay S. E. Snow
- Mari Katvala
- J. Rönn
- M. Andrade
Citations in the corpus
- Female fitness consequences of male harassment and copulation in seed beetles, Callosobruchus maculatus (2009, background): “Other studies have found that male ejaculate size does not affect female fecundity or several other components of female fitness (Eady 1995; Fox et al. 2006; Rönn et al. 2008).”
- The costs of mating and egg production in Callosobruchus seed beetles (2006, result): “Most of the earlier studies have been on C. maculatus ( Eady 1995; Messina & Slade 1999; Arnqvist et al. 2005) and a few on C. chinensis (Yanagi & Miyatake 2003; Miyatake & Matsumura 2004) and C. subinnotatus (Mbata et al. 1997).”
- Pattern of sperm transfer in redback spiders: implications for sperm competition and male sacrifice (2004, background): “In redbacks, sperm numbers may not be under as strong selection as is often assumed when some form of numerical sperm competition determines paternity (Cook et al., 1997, Eady, 1995, Gage, 1998).”
- Female Callosobruchus maculatus mate when they are thirsty: resource-rich ejaculates as mating effort in a beetle (2007, background): “Two studies where ejaculate size of male C. maculatus was manipulated by controlling male mating history found a negative effect of ejaculate size on female remating propensity after 16 h (Eady 1995; Savalli & Fox 1999) and 24 h ( Eady 1995 ).”
- Why do male Callosobruchus maculatus harm their mates (2005, background): “Part of the explanation for this could be that an ejaculate normally contains more sperm than is needed to fill the spermatheca, which will therefore be full of sperm after the first mating regardless of the size of the ejaculate (Eady, 1995).”