Female fecundity
The importance of male body size on sperm uptake and usage, and female fecundity in Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus
... on female fecundity in ...a female, we cannot ascribe the increase in fe- male fecundity to a given male’s ...the fecundity effects may be different with constant exposure to males, ...
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FEMALE FECUNDITY OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER SECOND CHROMOSOME RECESSIVE LETHAL HETEROZYGOTES IN HOMOZYGOUS AND HETEROZYGOUS GENETIC BACKGROUND
... The ratio of eggs laid by females heterozygous for lethals and the adults pro- duced from these eggs was compared to the same ratio for non-lethal-carrying females in ord[r] ...
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Heterozygote Advantage for Fecundity
... Heterozygote advantage, or overdominance, remains a popular and persuasive explanation for the maintenance of genetic variation in natural populations in the face of selection. However, despite being first proposed more ...
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Disassortative mating prevails in style dimorphic Narcissus papyraceus despite low reciprocity and compatibility of morphs
... was significantly different from that of the fifth to eighth flowers (average number of seeds set per flower ± s.d.: first-fourth flower, N=714, 3.4 ± 5.9; fifth-eighth flower, N=242, 0.9 ± 2.2; P < 0.04). Overall, ...
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The effects of spontaneous mutation on quantitative traits. I. Variances and covariances of life history traits.
... At generations 33 and 44 of accumulation, we extracted samples of chromosomes and assayed their homozygous performance for female fecundity early and late in adult [r] ...
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Heterosis for Viability, Fecundity, and Male Fertility in Drosophila melanogaster: Comparison of Mutational and Standing Variation
... Charlesworth and Charlesworth 1987). There is The absence of heterosis among a set of lines for a much less information on mutation rates, dominance of particular fitness component could arise for two quite mutations, ...
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Wang, Daiping (2019): Mate choice and the evolution of female promiscuity in a socially monogamous species. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Biologie
... Male, female or human observer identity, and female duo identity were included as random intercepts and the dependent variable was modeled as a Gaussian trait (number of eggs laid, propor- tion of time) or ...
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Comparison of Reproduction Characteristics and Broodstock Mortality in Farmed and Wild Eurasian Perch (Perca fluviatilis L.) Females During Spawning Season Under Controlled Conditions
... relative female fecundity, fertilization and hatching rate, larval total length and their resistance to osmotic stress, and survival rate of perch broodstock were recorded and characterized by simple ...
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A selection index of multiple quantitative traits of the predator Cryptolaemus montrouzieri (Mulsant) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) through 12 inbreeding generations
... The inbreeding can have a number of negative ef- fects in many quantitative traits and is related to loss of heterozygosity or to increase the expression of re- cessive alleles (Charlesworth and Charlesworth 1999). ...
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Postmating–prezygotic isolation between two allopatric populations of Drosophila montana : fertilisation success differs under sperm competition
... measure female fecun- dity and fertility as well as egg-to-adult viability of the eggs laid after the first ...measure female fecundity and fertility as well as egg-to-adult via- bility of the eggs ...
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Influence of Fluctuated Room Conditions on the Development of the Forensically Important Chrysomya albiceps (Wiedemann) Diptera: Calliphoridae
... virgin female and one day-old virgin ...virgin female were used to determine the female fecundity and each pair was kept in a small cage and supplied with 10% sugar solution, sucrose and fresh ...
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On the Growth and Reproductive Biology of asp, Aspius vorax, Population from the Middle Reaches of Euphrates River
... Endemic asp, Aspius vorax, from the middle section of the Euphrates River flowing through eastern Syria were studied to determine the main characteristics of their population structure, morphological parameters and ...
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Establishment of a medium scale mosquito facility: tests on mass production cages for Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae)
... affect female fecundity and egg hatch rate [18, ...and female fe- cundity (Table ...average fecundity of Aedes females has been found to range between 42–88 eggs per female in the first ...
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Mutualistic Wolbachia Infection in Aedes albopictus: Accelerating Cytoplasmic Drive
... Here, we have characterized a Wolbachia superinfec- tion occurring in Aedes albopictus (Asian tiger mosquito). Our results provide the first clear evidence of a CI- inducing Wolbachia infection that increases ...
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Population Structure, Growth, Mortality and Fecundity of Palaemon adspersus (Rathke 1837; Decapoda: Palaemonidae) in the Parila Lagoon (Croatia, SE Adriatic Sea) with Notes on the Population Management
... Average number of eggs per 1 g of total body weight (mainly the standard deviation) as well as the profiles of the body size to number of eggs relationships, indicated that there exists a weak relationship between these ...
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Biology of the papaya mealybug, paracoccus marginatus williams and granara de willink (Hemiptera: pseudococcidae)
... The female took longer time to complete oviposition during winter months (9 to 18 days) at 8 to 23°C and 40 to 84% ...its fecundity rate was 140 to 189 (Table ...the fecundity increased and it laid ...
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Past, present and future of pastoralism in Greece
... per-breeding female animal productivity, the flocks ’ energetic requirements (MJ NEL) based on NRC (1985) recommendations, the energy supplied through harvested feeds and, by inference, the contribution of grazing ...
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Genetic factors in human reproduction : a trade off between procreation and longevity
... a female married population and increased the time interval between marriage and birth of the first- born ...or fecundity could be found, although it was generated by a limited number of ...
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Wolbachia strain w AlbB confers both fitness costs and benefit on Anopheles stephensi
... We have previously shown that the Wolbachia strain wAlbB forms a stable association with An. stephensi, invades laboratory populations of this mosquito, and induces resistance to P. falciparum in this mosquito vector ...
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Spatiotemporal Variation in Broodstock Reserve Fecundity at Multiple Scales
... Because fecundity and reproductive output can vary in space and time, the functional success of broodstock reserves depends on selecting the habitat or location that maximizes reproductive output to the target ...
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