Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/handle/doc/871228
Title: Exposure of sterile Mediterranean fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) males to ginger root oil reduces female remating.
Authors: MORELLI, R.
PARANHOS, B. A. J.
COELHO, A. M.
CASTRO, R.
GARZIERA, L.
LOPES, F.
BENTO, J. M. S.
Affiliation: R. MORELLI, R., ESALQ; BEATRIZ AGUIAR JORDAO PARANHOS, CPATSA; A. M. COELHO, ESALQ; R. CASTRO; L. GARZIERA; F. LOPES; J. M. S. BENTO, ESALQ.
Date Issued: 2013
Citation: Journal of Applied Entomology, Hamburg, v. 137, p. 75-82, 2013.
Description: Females of Ceratitis capitata are facultative polyandrous, with remating more common in laboratory strains rather than wild ones. In the application of the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) against this pest, large overflooding ratios of sterile : wild males can increase the remating frequency. Females that mate for the first time with a sterile male tend to remate more frequently. The exposure of sterile males to ginger root oil (GRO) is used in C. capitata SIT programmes to increase the sterile male mating success. Exposing males to an ?aromatherapy? with GRO may also increase the remating frequency among wild females. The frequency of wild females remating, number of matings per female, the refractory period between the first and second mating, and the duration of the first and second matings of wild females were determined under laboratory conditions for three mating scenarios that included wild males only or wild males competing with sterile males (either GRO-treated or nontreated). Wild females first mated with sterile males exposed to GRO had their remating rate over the following 6 days and the mean number of matings per female reduced in comparison to those first mated with non-exposed sterile males, from 62.5% to 32.2% and from 3.1 to 1.6 respectively. The remating parameters of females mated with sterile GRO-exposed males resembled those of females mated with wild males.
Thesagro: Entomologia
Inseto
Ceratitis Capitata
Praga
NAL Thesaurus: Entomology
Keywords: Técnica do inseto estéril
Fruit fly
Moscas-das-frutas
Notes: Supplement 1.
Type of Material: Artigo de periódico
Access: openAccess
Appears in Collections:Artigo em periódico indexado (CPATSA)

Files in This Item:
File Description SizeFormat 
Beatri4.pdf83,49 kBAdobe PDFThumbnail
View/Open

FacebookTwitterDeliciousLinkedInGoogle BookmarksMySpace