中华绒螯蟹(Eriocheir sinensis)肌肉中不饱和脂肪酸含量与越冬死亡、产卵关系

本文报道了中华绒螯蟹越冬时和越冬后不同性别,不同生活状态粗脂肪中不饱和脂肪酸及肌肉中不饱和脂肪酸含量及变化,分析了不饱和脂肪酸含量与越冬死亡,越冬后交配,产卵和孵化关系。越冬前雌,雄河蟹粗脂肪中不饱和脂肪酸碘（I2）值为57和48。越冬（越冬时,越冬后）死亡雌,雄河蟹粗脂肪中不饱和脂肪酸I2值分别低于28和10;而其肌肉中不饱和脂肪酸的I2值分别低于1．25和0．83。越冬后能成功交配的雄河蟹粗脂肪中不饱和脂肪酸I2值高于33。越冬后交配产卵雌河蟹粗脂肪中不饱和脂肪酸I2值高于42,抱卵并使卵正常孵化的雌河蟹粗脂肪中不饱和脂肪酸I2值大于47。脂肪酸在河蟹的细胞内氧化分解,为越冬提供了能量。     

中华绒螯蟹（Eriocheir sinensis）体内维生素C含量与死亡和产…

本文报道了中华绒螯蟹越冬后肝胰脏、肌肉和生殖腺维生素Ｃ的含量及变化。肝胰脏为中华绒螯蟹储存维生素Ｃ的器官;越冬后的雌性中华绒螯蟹,其肌肉和生殖腺的维生素Ｃ高于雄性;正常活动雌性或雄性,其肝胰脏、肌肉和生殖腺的维生素Ｃ含量均高于死亡的个体的维生素Ｃ含量;产卵且抱卵孵化的雌体,其肝脏维生素Ｃ的含量高于那些不产卵的雌体。维生素Ｃ含量的降低是越冬时或越冬后中华绒螯蟹死亡的主要原因之一。     

中华绒螯蟹（Eriocheir sinensis）体内维生素C含量与死亡和产卵的关系

本文报道了中华绒螯蟹越冬后肝胰脏、肌肉和生殖腺维生素Ｃ的含量及变化。肝胰脏为中华绒螯蟹储存维生素Ｃ的器官;越冬后的雌性中华绒螯蟹,其肌肉和生殖腺的维生素Ｃ高于雄性;正常活动雌性或雄性,其肝胰脏、肌肉和生殖腺的维生素Ｃ含量均高于死亡的个体的维生素Ｃ含量;产卵且抱卵孵化的雌体,其肝脏维生素Ｃ的含量高于那些不产卵的雌体,维生素Ｃ含量的降低是越冬时或越冬后中华绒螯蟹死亡的主要原因之一。     

芦苇卷叶蛛生物学特性的研究

芦苇卷叶蛛在山东青州一年可发生２－３代，以若蛛，成蛛越冬，若蛛经４－５次蜕皮发育为成蛛。雌，雄可多次交配，雌蛛一生可产卵囊３－５个，单雌产卵量平均４１．６粒，孵化率为８７％。世代平均历期１２８．３５天，寿命２３０天左右，♀：♂＝１．３６：１。耐饥力的大小与温度高低，有无水分供应及发育阶段有关，在相同条件下，成蛛的耐饥力在于幼蛛，温度高耐饥力弱，反之，则强。     

三疣梭子蟹肌肉组织中甜菜碱、糖原及无机盐变化研究

为了探讨甜菜碱、糖原及无机盐含量对三疣梭子蟹肌肉口感品质的影响,采用可见分光光度法、蒽酮比色法和原子分光光度法,分别测定了3个发育阶段（8月份幼蟹阶段、10月份交配前和12月份交配后）的野生三疣梭子蟹肌肉组织中甜菜碱、糖原及无机盐含量。结果表明：1）肌肉中甜菜碱含量在第一阶段（8月幼蟹）甜菜碱含量最低,为172 mg/100 g,10月交配前雌蟹肌肉甜菜碱含量最高,达473 mg/100 g,但12月份交配后含量减半;雄蟹肌肉则表现为从第1到第3阶段逐渐升高趋势。2）幼蟹的糖原含量极低,仅为0.8μg/mg,交配前雌雄蟹仍保持较低水平,交配后糖原含量急剧升高,雌雄蟹分别上升至11.26μg/mg和9.61μg/mg,各是交配前的6.5倍和10倍。3）肌肉无机盐中K、Na是宏量元素,含量最高,K含量336~457 mg/100 g,Na含量131~185 mg/100 g,Fe为微量元素,含量最低,仅有1.12~1.26 mg/100 g。三疣梭子蟹肌肉中的甜菜碱含量远高于一般水产品,故蟹肉入口爽滑带有甜味,且随着肌肉中糖原含量不断增加,其风味也更佳。     

山地麻晰繁殖生态的研究

１９９７年３月至１９９８年８月,在徐州市近郊的牛头山对山地麻晰的繁殖生态进行了研究。３～７月为繁殖期,其中４～５月为交配产卵盛期。雌雄性比为１１．６。从交配到产卵为２６天,卵白色、革质、椭圆形。长径平均为１．３７（１．２３～１．５３）ｃｍ,短径平均为０．８６（０．７～１．０６）ｃｍ,卵重平均为０．６（０．４～０．８５）ｇ,每窝平均产卵４．１（３～５）枚。孵化期为５０天。初孵出的小麻晰尾端为蓝绿色,     

中华绒螯蟹幼蟹对亮氨酸和异亮氨酸的需要量

以初始体重为(0.900.02) g的中华绒螯蟹幼蟹为试验对象, 采用酪蛋白、明胶、进口鱼粉和晶体氨基酸为蛋白源, 配制成12组试验饲料, 研究中华绒螯蟹幼蟹对亮氨酸(Leu)和异亮氨酸(Ile)的需要量。饲料中Leu水平为0.87%、1.26%、1.64%、2.03%、2.39%和2.81% (分别记为Leu-1Leu-6组), Ile水平为0.69%、1.21%、1.70%、2.19%、2.70%和3.21% (分别记为Ile-1Ile-6组)。试验周期为60d。结果表明: (1)饲料中Leu含量为2.39%时, 幼蟹特定生长率和全蟹粗蛋白含量达到最大值, 而各组之间的成活率和全蟹水分、粗脂肪以及灰分无显著差异(P 0.05)。当饲料Leu含量大于2.39%时, 河蟹肌肉Leu含量、肌肉必需氨基酸总量和肌肉氨基酸总量均显著高于其他各试验组(P 0.05)。(2)饲料中Ile含量为2.19%时, 幼蟹特定生长率和全蟹粗蛋白含量达到最大值, 而各试验组之间的成活率和全蟹水分、粗脂肪以及灰分差异不显著(P 0.05)。河蟹肌肉Ile含量、必需氨基酸总量和氨基酸总量随饲料中Ile含量增加呈先升高后降低的趋势, 最大值均出现在Ile-5组(2.70% Ile), 但Ile-4组(2.19% Ile)与Ile-5组差异不显著(P 0.05)。根据特定生长率与饲料Leu或Ile水平的折线模型, 确定中华绒螯蟹幼蟹饲料亮氨酸和异亮氨酸的适宜需要量分别为饲料干物质的2.36%和2.25%, 即饲料蛋白的5.88%和5.72%。       

低盐度海水和淡水对中华绒螯蟹性腺发育及交配行为的影响

研究了低盐度海水(盐度为15)和淡水(盐度为0)对中华绒螯蟹(Eriocheir sinensis,以下简称河蟹)性腺发育及交配行为的影响,并比较了河蟹交配和产卵前后的性腺指数及肝胰腺指数的变化。实验分为4组,分别为低盐度海水雌蟹组、淡水雌蟹组、低盐度海水雄蟹组和淡水雄蟹组。结果表明,(1)各组河蟹的成活率均在80%左右,无显著差异(P>0.05);(2)实验第15天、30天和45天时,低盐度海水雌蟹组的卵巢指数显著高于淡水雌蟹组(P<0.05),低盐度海水雄蟹组的性腺指数也略高于淡水雄蟹组,但差异不显著(P>0.05);(3)实验第30天时,低盐度海水雌蟹组的肝胰腺指数显著低于淡水雌蟹组(P<0.05),其余采样时间两组雌体间或两组雄体间的肝胰腺指数差异不显著(P>0.05),实验期间,两组雌体的肝胰腺指数均显著下降(P<0.05);(4)实验第45天,低盐度海水雌蟹组和雄蟹组实验个体全部能够交配,有66.7%的低盐度海水雌蟹组的个体交配后2 d内产卵,淡水雄蟹组有部分个体在低盐度海水中有发情行为;(5)低盐度海水组,雌蟹产卵后和雄蟹交配后的性腺指数均显著下降(P<0.05),但肝胰腺指数下降不显著(P>0.05)。     

延迟交配对马铃薯块茎蛾繁殖力及寿命的影响

为明确延迟交配对马铃薯块茎蛾Phthorimaea operculella的影响,在室内条件下,分别对初羽化未交配的马铃薯块茎蛾雌虫、雄虫及雌雄虫同时延迟1～5 d配对饲养,研究不同延迟交配处理对该虫产卵量、卵的孵化率及雌雄成虫寿命的影响.结果表明,从产卵量来看,分别将雄虫或雌虫延迟1～3 d交配对产卵量无显著影响,而延迟4和5 d交配能显著降低其产卵量,其中雄虫分别延迟4 d和5 d交配后使单雌产卵量分别降低了 20.50％和42.00％,雌虫分别延迟4 d和5 d交配后单雌产卵量分别降低了 26.01％和35.79％.当将雌雄同时延迟1～2 d交配,对单雌产卵量无显著影响,而延迟3 d、4 d和5 d交配时,产卵量分别降低了 12.50％、23.84％和44.57％.从卵的孵化率来看,延迟1～5 d交配对卵的孵化无明显影响.从成虫寿命来看,不同延迟交配对雌雄虫的寿命均无显著影响.由此表明,马铃薯块茎蛾延迟3d或4 d后交配有利于降低其产卵量,因此可通过在田间设置性诱剂以干扰马铃薯块茎蛾正常交配来降低产卵量,从而达到控制田间马铃薯块茎蛾下一代虫口数量的作用.     

青岛地区暗绿绣眼鸟繁殖生态研究

暗绿绣眼鸟每年４月２０日迁来，５月中下旬筑巢，筑巢期７天。筑巢期间交配，巢成后即产卵。每窝产卵４枚，年产１窝。孵卵期１０天。雏鸟均在孵卵期的最后一上小时内全部出壳。经亲鸟喂食１１天，雏鸟出飞离巢。     

Paternity in the Australian brush-turkey, Alectura lathami, a megapode bird with uniparental male care

Male Australian brush-turkeys, Alectura lathami, provide allparental care by building and tending large incubation mounds.Females visit and lay eggs in the mounds of several males sequentially,but they provide no parental care after laying. Because malesand females meet only briefly at mounds to copulate and lay,males have no obvious means of ensuring paternity. I used DNAfingerprinting techniques to determine paternity for 65 brush-turkeychicks. Eighteen chicks (27.7%) did not match the mound-tendingmale. Some of these paternity exclusions were evidently causedby females switching rapidly from one mound to another, butthe majority (23.1% of eggs) appeared to result from femalescopulating with males other than the one in whose mound theywere currently laying. However, the frequency of these copulations(43%) was much lower than the estimated frequency with whichthey fertilized eggs, perhaps because their timing during theovulatory cycle differed relative to most other copulations.The percentage of eggs excluded in paternity analyses rangedfrom 20.0% to 43.8% for individual males but did not appearto affect male parental care. Several factors favor male parentalcare regardless of paternity. Males can accommodate eggs fromseveral females in one mound, which increases the opportunitiesfor additional matings without increasing the cost of parentalcare. In addition, paternity appears to be unpredictable andhard to assess, and a facultative reduction in care would bedifficult without abandoning a mound entirely.     

Optimal Mate Searching Strategy in the Symbiotic Spider Crab Inachus phalangium (Decapoda)

The reproductive strategy of the symbiotic spider crab, Inachus phalangium was studied from 1981 to 1983 in the natural environment. Main study focus was the efficiency of males in search of mates. I. phalangium females are site-constant, and live in the protection of one anemone or group. Males travel frequently between anemones harbouring females due to spawn; they copulate and guard the females until spawning, after which the male leaves again. A male operates in a patrol area containing 3–8 anemone groups and up to 8 females, visiting each female in turn repeatedly just before it is due to spawn. Patrol areas of different males may overlap, with resulting competition to fertilize a female's next brood. Large males have higher reproductive success than small ones. Females live up to 8 months after the moult of puberty and hatch up to six broods, and males live up to 7 months as adults. A male could fertilize a calculated 26,000 eggs, whilst a female's reproductive potential is ca. 4,200 eggs. Mortality risks are higher for males than for females, probably because of increased predation while leaving the protection of anemones in order to visit females. Males learn the positions of anemones harbouring females in their patrol areas, and when these are due to spawn. This allows a male to travel with a target and arrive punctually to fertilize the next brood due in his circuit. I. phalangium is the first marine invertebrate reported to use a “schedule” of localities and times for visiting prespawning females. In this way males minimize searching time and mortality risk, and maximize the number of broods fertilized.     

Copulating with multiple mates enhances female fecundity but not egg-to-adult survival in the bruchid beetle Callosobruchus maculatus

Postcopulatory sexual selection theory has come a long way since the evolutionary implications of sperm competition were first spelled out by Parker (1970). However, one of the most enduring questions remains: why do females copulate with multiple males? Here we show that females copulating with multiple males lay more eggs than those copulating repeatedly with the same male. We also show egg‐to‐adult survival to be more variable when females copulate multiply with different males and less variable when they copulate multiply with the same male. This supports the notion that egg‐to‐adult survival may depend on the genetic compatibility of males and females. However, pre‐adult survival was highest when females copulated repeatedly with the same male rather than with different males. Thus, it would appear that polyandry in this species does not function to reduce the risk of embryo failure resulting from fertilization by genetically incompatible sperm.     

Behavioural and genetic assessment of reproductive success in a spawning aggregation of the Australian giant cuttlefish, Sepia apama

The only known spawning aggregation of cuttlefish occurs in winter in southern Australia. The operational sex ratio in this aggregation is highly skewed towards males (range 11:1 to 4:1). Using SCUBA, we videotaped females as they mated with up to six males/h. Females rejected and accepted mates of any status or size. We obtained individual eggs and tissue samples from females and their mates and determined paternity by microsatellite DNA analysis. Thirty-nine eggs were sampled during 17 observational sequences (trials); 22 eggs were sired by a sampled male. One-third of the females mated with multiple males and 67% of females' eggs had multiple sires (N=9). Given our restricted sampling, these results probably underestimate actual levels of multiple paternity. Males competed to guard and copulate with females, and spent most of the copulation time flushing water into the female's buccal area. Thus, we predicted a high probability of fertilization of the next-laid egg(s) by the last male to mate, but this prediction was not statistically supported by our data. Fertilization success did not differ significantly between paired consorts (36%) and unpaired males (31%), or between large (33%) and small males (29%). Females used sperm from paired, unpaired and sneaker males as well as from previous matings to fertilize eggs. Our results indicate that this mating system has a high level of multiple mating and multiple paternity and that males of any size or status can obtain successful fertilizations.     

A Potential Cost of Monandry in the Lekking Sandfly Lutzomyia Longipalpis

Multiple mating by females is a subject of considerable controversy. In some species, however, females appear to mate only once, and the potential costs and benefits of this behavior are equally intriguing. When male mating success is highly skewed, monandrous females potentially risk mating with a sperm depleted male. In lek-breeding species, a male may gain up to 80% of available matings, yet few studies have explored whether these highly successful males suffer sperm depletion. These points are investigated in a series of laboratory experiments on the lekking sandfly, Lutzomyia longipalpis. It is shown that females may actively reject males prior to and after genital contact and that mated females do not remate within a single egg-laying cycle regardless of the refractory period between the first and subsequent matings. Males mate multiply and suffer from the effects of sperm depletion after their fifth copulation. Despite this, they continue to court and copulate females with equal vigor and females do not appear to detect sperm-depleted males: they lay similar numbers of eggs irrespective of the number of females their mate has previously copulated with. The implications of a single mating for L. longipalpis females in natural and laboratory leks are discussed.     

Breeding strategy of the male brooding water bug,Diplonychus major esaki (Heteroptera: Belostomatidae): Is male back space limiting?

Breeding ecology of brooding males of the water bugDiplonychus major was investigated in the field and laboratory. During one breeding season an individual male may consecutively brood 3 or 4 egg-masses on his back until hatching. The 1st and the 2nd egg-masses brooded took about 1 month to hatch. Eggs generally hatched. Most of them hatched in synchronously, and males received a new brood of eggs within a few days. Therefore, total male back spaces in the pond, here regarded as the reproductive resource for females, showed considerable fluctuation. When the resource was in low availability, male back space was estimated to be strongly limiting, and in order to ensure successful oviposition in a competitive environment, females are expected to lay eggs aggressively. In laboratory studies, intensive competition to lay eggs was observed, and polygamy also occurred. Males always attempted to copulate before receiving eggs. However, some females sometimes thrust themselves into mating pairs and laid eggs without copulation before the copulating female laid her eggs. Repeated copulation was likely unnecessary for females. Furthermore, since individual male back space is always limiting for each individual male it is evolutionarily advantageous for a male to receive only eggs fertilized by himself. Oviposition occurring without additional copulations, as observed in this study, is new evidence supporting the paternity assurance hypothesis.     

Why do females copulate repeatedly with one male?

For most animals, a small number of copulations is sufficient to fertilize all the eggs that a female will lay at any one time. However, in some species a very high frequency of mating occurs, indicating that individuals copulate many more times than are necessary for fertilization. If copulation behaviour carries costs, then the question arises as to how individuals of both sexes benefit from repeated matings with a single partner. For a male, a high frequency of copulation appears to be advantageous in securing or assuring paternity when his sperm is in competition with those of another male. Since copulation is likely to be as costly for females as it is for males, it is necessary to seek adaptive explanations from the female perspective. Attention is now being focused on why females should copulate repeatedly with a single male.     

Repeated copulations benefit of the female inLethocerus deyrollei vuillefroy (Heteroptera: Belostomatidae)

TheLethocerus deyrollei male copulates repeatedly with the same female before and between ovipositions. Females stopped oviposition and waited for the next copulation when males were experimentally removed. This result suggests that females need to copulate before each oviposition bout. Since eggs fail to hatch without care of males, females have to detain males until the end of sequential ovipositions. Males assure their paternity with repeated copulations, and females can thus detain males.     

A physiological basis for colony desertion by Red-billed queleas (Quelea quelea)

A breeding colony of Red-billed queleas, established in N.E. Nigeria under poor feeding conditions occasioned by drought, was abandoned after the eggs had been laid. Inadequate energy intake caused males to leave before completing the nests. This resulted in thousands of eggs being laid through bottomless nests onto the ground. The females left progressively as they completed their clutches; below normal protein- and fat-reserves probably combined to induce abandonment. Some individuals, predominantly females, died on the last night of occupation. Death apparently resulted from an adverse nutritional balance at a crucial stage in the laying sequence. The main value of the fat reserves in females beginning to lay appears to be in allowing maximal foraging "for protein".