Mating Competition between Wild and Artificially Reared Olive Fruit Flies
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Insect Rearing
2.2. Male Mating Competitiveness Test
2.3. Oviposition
2.4. Spermathecae Volume
2.5. Statistics
3. Results
3.1. Male Competitiveness Test
3.2. Mating Latency
3.3. Mating Duration
3.4. Egg Production and Size of Spermathecae
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Variables | Female | Mated with W♂ | Mated with AR♂ | p-Value |
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Eggs/female/10 days | W♀ | 52.8 (3.7) a | 50.0 (2.8) a | 0.556 |
Eggs/female/10 days | AR♀ | 79.2 (5.2) a | 68.9 (6.5) a | 0.224 |
Spermathecae volume | W♀ | 0.0093 (0.0007) a | 0.0075 (0.0003) b | 0.0423 |
Spermathecae volume | AR♀ | 0.0069 (0.0005) a | 0.0063 (0.0006) a | 0.870 |
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Terzidou, A.; Koveos, D.; Kouloussis, N. Mating Competition between Wild and Artificially Reared Olive Fruit Flies. Crops 2022, 2, 247-257. https://doi.org/10.3390/crops2030018
Terzidou A, Koveos D, Kouloussis N. Mating Competition between Wild and Artificially Reared Olive Fruit Flies. Crops. 2022; 2(3):247-257. https://doi.org/10.3390/crops2030018
Chicago/Turabian StyleTerzidou, Anastasia, Dimitrios Koveos, and Nikos Kouloussis. 2022. "Mating Competition between Wild and Artificially Reared Olive Fruit Flies" Crops 2, no. 3: 247-257. https://doi.org/10.3390/crops2030018