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Mating opportunities in Sangalopsis veliterna females: Costs and benefits

In nature, females of several animal taxa exhibit considerable variation in their mating system, and this variation involves different balances of costs (e.g., energetic, reproductive) and benefits (e.g., increased net reproductive rate of the female, increased longevity). Many studies have focused...

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Autores principales: Hernández Duran, Linda C., Fajardo Medina, Gonzalo E., Fuentes Quinter, Luz S., Martin, Oliver
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4212863/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25205137
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jis/14.1.112
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author Hernández Duran, Linda C.
Fajardo Medina, Gonzalo E.
Fuentes Quinter, Luz S.
Martin, Oliver
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description In nature, females of several animal taxa exhibit considerable variation in their mating system, and this variation involves different balances of costs (e.g., energetic, reproductive) and benefits (e.g., increased net reproductive rate of the female, increased longevity). Many studies have focused on discovering the potential advantages and disadvantages that females could have when increasing their mating rate and the possible evolutionary consequences that may result. Butterflies and moths are an ideal study system because it is easy to determine and to manipulate experimentally their mating frequency. In this study, the effect of continuous availability of different numbers of males (1, 2, 4, 8) on female mating rate and fitness components was estimated by comparing the number of spermatophores in the corpus bursa (an estimate of the number of copulations, but not of the number males involved in these copulations), female longevity, lifetime number of laid eggs (fecundity), and proportion of hatching eggs (fertility) in the moth Sangalopsis veliterna Druce (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). The results showed that there were no significant differences in either fertility or fecundity when treatments were compared, but longevity and in some cases fecundity increased when females had several matings. Resumen En la naturaleza, hembras de varios taxa animal muestran una variación considerable en su sistema de apareamiento, esta variación involucra diferentes costos (energéticos, reproductivos, etc) y beneficios (aumento de la tasa reproductiva neta de la hembra, mayor longevidad, entre otros). En años recientes, muchos estudios se han enfocado en descubrir las potenciales ventajas y desventajas que las hembras podrían tener al aumentar su número de cópulas y las posibles consecuencias evolutivas que podrían resultar. Las mariposas y polillas son un sistema de estudio ideal, dada la facilidad para determinar y manipular experimentalmente su frecuencia de apareamiento. En este estudio, el efecto de la disponibilidad continua de diferente número de machos (1, 2, 4, 8) sobre la frecuencia de apareamiento de las hembras y los componentes del potencial reproductivo (fitness) fueron estimados al comparar el número de espermatóforos hallados en la bursa copulatrix (un estimado del número de copulas, pero no del número de machos involucrados en estas copulas), la longevidad de las hembras, número de huevos colocados (fecundidad) y proporción de huevos fecundados (fertilidad) en la polilla Sangalopsis veliterna Druce (Lepidóptera: Geometridae). Los resultados indican que no existen diferencias en la fertilidad ni en la fecundidad; sin embargo la longevidad aumentó a medida que se las hembras presentaron más de una cópula y de igual manera en algunos casos la fecundidad aumentó con varios apareamientos.
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spelling pubmed-42128632014-10-31 Mating opportunities in Sangalopsis veliterna females: Costs and benefits Hernández Duran, Linda C. Fajardo Medina, Gonzalo E. Fuentes Quinter, Luz S. Martin, Oliver J Insect Sci Papers In nature, females of several animal taxa exhibit considerable variation in their mating system, and this variation involves different balances of costs (e.g., energetic, reproductive) and benefits (e.g., increased net reproductive rate of the female, increased longevity). Many studies have focused on discovering the potential advantages and disadvantages that females could have when increasing their mating rate and the possible evolutionary consequences that may result. Butterflies and moths are an ideal study system because it is easy to determine and to manipulate experimentally their mating frequency. In this study, the effect of continuous availability of different numbers of males (1, 2, 4, 8) on female mating rate and fitness components was estimated by comparing the number of spermatophores in the corpus bursa (an estimate of the number of copulations, but not of the number males involved in these copulations), female longevity, lifetime number of laid eggs (fecundity), and proportion of hatching eggs (fertility) in the moth Sangalopsis veliterna Druce (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). The results showed that there were no significant differences in either fertility or fecundity when treatments were compared, but longevity and in some cases fecundity increased when females had several matings. Resumen En la naturaleza, hembras de varios taxa animal muestran una variación considerable en su sistema de apareamiento, esta variación involucra diferentes costos (energéticos, reproductivos, etc) y beneficios (aumento de la tasa reproductiva neta de la hembra, mayor longevidad, entre otros). En años recientes, muchos estudios se han enfocado en descubrir las potenciales ventajas y desventajas que las hembras podrían tener al aumentar su número de cópulas y las posibles consecuencias evolutivas que podrían resultar. Las mariposas y polillas son un sistema de estudio ideal, dada la facilidad para determinar y manipular experimentalmente su frecuencia de apareamiento. En este estudio, el efecto de la disponibilidad continua de diferente número de machos (1, 2, 4, 8) sobre la frecuencia de apareamiento de las hembras y los componentes del potencial reproductivo (fitness) fueron estimados al comparar el número de espermatóforos hallados en la bursa copulatrix (un estimado del número de copulas, pero no del número de machos involucrados en estas copulas), la longevidad de las hembras, número de huevos colocados (fecundidad) y proporción de huevos fecundados (fertilidad) en la polilla Sangalopsis veliterna Druce (Lepidóptera: Geometridae). Los resultados indican que no existen diferencias en la fertilidad ni en la fecundidad; sin embargo la longevidad aumentó a medida que se las hembras presentaron más de una cópula y de igual manera en algunos casos la fecundidad aumentó con varios apareamientos. Oxford University Press 2014-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4212863/ /pubmed/25205137 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jis/14.1.112 Text en This is an open access paper. We use the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license that permits unrestricted use, provided that the paper is properly attributed. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, providedthe original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4212863/
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