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- Title
Mating affects reproductive investment into eggs, but not the timing of oogenesis in the flesh fly Sarcophaga crassipalpis.
- Authors
Hahn, Daniel A.; Rourke, Matthew N.; Milne, Kathy R.
- Abstract
We examined the effects of mating on reproductive investment and the timing of oogenesis in the flesh fly Sarcophaga crassipalpis by exposing females to males or not. All females exposed to males were mated within a few days and we found that mating affected reproductive investment. Virgin females not exposed to males produced a large clutch of eggs (∼91), but females exposed to males and mated produced 10% more. There was no effect of mating on egg length or mass. There was also no effect of mating on the timing of oogenesis. Females in both treatments provisioned their eggs at the same rate with yolk first becoming visible in the oocytes on day three of adulthood and complete provisioning of eggs occurring by the seventh day of adulthood. We examined the biochemical basis of egg provisioning by identifying the yolk proteins and quantifying their blood titer during the oogenic period in both, females exposed to males and mated and those not exposed to males. There was no difference in the timing of the first appearance, peak titer, or disappearance of yolk proteins in the blood between the two treatments. However, consistent with our observation of greater egg production in mated females, these females contained a greater peak yolk protein titer.
- Subjects
ANIMAL sexual behavior; SARCOPHAGA; FLIES; REPRODUCTION; OOGENESIS; GAMETOGENESIS; OVUM; PROTEINS; PHYSIOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic & Environmental Physiology, 2008, Vol 178, Issue 2, p225
- ISSN
0174-1578
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00360-007-0216-x