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Polyandry increases reproductive performance but does not decrease survival in female Brontispa longissima

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2016

K. Kawazu ,
W. Sugeno ,
A. Mochizuki  and
S. Nakamura
K. Kawazu*
Affiliation:
National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8604, Japan Kyoyu Agri Co., Ltd., 173-2, Guze, Tomitake, Nagano 381-0006, Japan
W. Sugeno
Affiliation:
National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8604, Japan
A. Mochizuki
Affiliation:
National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8604, Japan
S. Nakamura
Affiliation:
Japan International Research Centre for Agricultural Sciences, 1-1 Owashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8686, Japan
*
*Author for correspondence Tel: +8126-296-2097 Fax: +8126-296-2037 E-mail: kawazu-kei@kyoyu-agri.co.jp
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Abstract

The costs and benefits of polyandry are still not well understood. We studied the effects of multiple mating on the reproductive performance of female Brontispa longissima (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), one of the most serious pests of the coconut palm, by using three experimental treatments: (1) singly-mated females (single treatment); (2) females that mated 10 times with the same male (repetition treatment); and (3) females that mated once with each of 10 different males (polyandry treatment). Both multiple mating treatments resulted in significantly greater total egg production and the proportion of eggs that successfully hatched (hatching success) than with the single mating treatment. Furthermore, the polyandry treatment resulted in greater total egg production and hatching success than with the repetition treatment. Thus, mate diversity may affect the direct and indirect benefits of multiple mating. Female longevity, the length of the preoviposition period, the length of the period from emergence to termination of oviposition, and the length of the ovipositing period did not differ among treatments. The pronounced fecundity and fertility benefits that females gain from multiple mating, coupled with a lack of longevity costs, apparently explain the extreme polyandry in B. longissima.

Keywords

Brontispa longissimafecundityfertilitymultiple matingpolyandry
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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 107 , Issue 2 , April 2017 , pp. 165 - 173
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