25 research outputs found
The effect of age on the mating competitiveness of male Glossina fuscipes fuscipes and G. palpalis palpalis
Impact of salivary gland hypertrophy virus infection on the mating success of male Glossina pallidipes: consequences for the sterile insect technique.
Many species of tsetse flies are infected by a virus (GpSGHV) that causes salivary gland hypertrophy (SGH). Female Glossina pallidipes (Austen) with SGH symptoms (SGH+) have reduced fecundity and SGH+ male G. pallidipes are unable to inseminate female flies. Consequently, G. pallidipes laboratory colonies with a high prevalence of SGH have been difficult to maintain and have collapsed on several occasions. To assess the potential impact of the release of SGH+ sterile male G. pallidipes on the efficacy of an integrated control programme with a sterile insect technique (SIT) component, we examined the mating efficiency and behaviour of male G. pallidipes in field cages in relation to SGH prevalence. The results showed in a field cage setting a significantly reduced mating frequency of 19% for a male G. pallidipes population with a high prevalence of SGH (83%) compared to 38% for a male population with a low prevalence of SGH (7%). Premating period and mating duration did not vary significantly with SGH status. A high percentage (>80%) of females that had mated with SGH+ males had empty spermathecae. The remating frequency of female G. pallidipes was very low irrespective of the SGH status of the males in the first mating. These results indicate that a high prevalence of SGH+ in G. pallidipes not only affects colony stability and performance but, in view of their reduced mating propensity and competitiveness, releasing SGH+ sterile male G. pallidipes will reduce the efficiency of a sterile male release programme
Impact of Salivary Gland Hypertrophy Virus Infection on the Mating Success of Male Glossina pallidipes: Consequences for the Sterile Insect Technique
The mating duration and period before mating in minutes for SGH+ and SGH− male <i>G. pallidipes</i> in a field cage.
<p><b>A:</b> Females mated with SGH− males and remated with low SGH prevelance group, <b>B:</b> Females mated with SGH+ males and remated with low SGH prevelance group, and <b>C:</b> Females mated with SGH-males and remated with high SGH prevelance group.</p><p>Data are presented as detransformed mean values (in bold) and 95% confidence interval.</p><p>Mean values in the same column followed by the same letter do not differ at the 5% level. See <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0042188#s3" target="_blank">Results</a> section for full statistical analysis.</p
Mating frequency by SGH status in field cage mating experiments.
<p><b>A:</b> Females mated with SGH− males and remated with low SGH prevelance group, <b>B:</b> Females mated with SGH+ males and remated with low SGH prevelance group, and <b>C:</b> Females mated with SGH-males and remated with high SGH prevelance group. Data are presented as mean values ± standard deviation.</p>**<p>mating frequency differs between SGH+ and SGH− males in the same row at the 1% level. See <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0042188#s3" target="_blank">Results</a> section for full statistical analysis.</p
Impact of male SGH status on insemination rate (spermathecal fill) in <i>G. pallidipes</i> mated females.
<p>Impact of male SGH status on insemination rate (spermathecal fill) in <i>G. pallidipes</i> mated females.</p
Schematic representation of the design of experiments A, B and C (minimum competition) and D (direct competition).
<p>Schematic representation of the design of experiments A, B and C (minimum competition) and D (direct competition).</p
Mating percentage of SGH− and SGH+ males in the first and second matings.
<p>Numbers above columns indicate number mating and total number of males in category.</p
Impact of first and second mating combinations on the mating percentage in the second mating of <i>G. pallidipes</i>.
<p>A, Females mated with SGH− males and remated with SGH− males, B, Females mated with SGH+ males and remated with SGH− males, and C, Females mated with SGH− males and remated with SGH+ males.</p