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    Female firefly beetle chooses a mate: prefers big people!

    • Last Update: 2021-09-11
    • Source: Internet
    • Author: User
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    Photo courtesy of Guangju Firefly Plant Protection Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

     Photo courtesy of the Plant Protection Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Photo courtesy of the Plant Protection Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

    Photo provided by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Institute of Plant Protection

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    Recently, the "Animal Ecology" (Journal of Animal Ecology) published online reveal the results of a recent, widely O.


    "Animal Ecology" (Journal of Animal Ecology), a new online publication of the results reveals wide O.


    Corresponding author Zhou Zhongshi, researcher, said that in the animal kingdom, females choose to mate with males and usually produce certain "reproduction and survival benefits


    The size of the insect usually affects the reproduction ability of the insect


    The team's research found that when females choose to mate with large males, they can not only breed more offspring, but also have a higher survival rate of offspring during development, and the intrinsic growth rate, limited growth rate and net growth of the population The rate has also increased significantly


    According to the population development forecast, the development trend of the progeny populations that choose to mate with larger males is obviously accelerated


    Subsequently, the genes OcACE, OcSFP and OcCBP, which are highly expressed in the testis and accessory glands of large male worms, were screened based on transbankomics and qPCR technology


    Furthermore, the expression profiles of different tissues of female and male found that the expression levels of 3 genes in the mating sacs of females at the end of initial mating were more than two times higher than those of other tissues


    After silencing three genes in males by RNAi, the fecundity of females mated with them showed a significant decrease


    The research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China


    Related paper information: https://doi.


    https://doi.
    org/10.
    1111/1365-2656.
    13579
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