Influence of mating on sexual receptivity and oviposition in the mosquito, Culex tarsalis |
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| Authors: | A D M YOUNG A E R DOWNE |
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| Institution: | Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACT. Mated females of Culex tarsalis Coq. (Diptera, Culicidae) were receptive to additional insemination after gonotrophic activity. Sexual receptivity was not renewed in mated, aged nulliparous females. Insemination was determined by the detection in females of sperm labelled with adenine-3H(G) after matings with radio-labelled males. When females were deprived of males after their first insemination, the production of fertile eggs was reduced and oviposition activity was altered throughout successive gonotrophic cycles. |
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| Keywords: | Mosquitoes Culex tarsalis sexual receptivity insemination fertility oviposition |
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