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Sex-specific response to delayed and repeated mating in spider mite Tetranychus urticae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2020

Guang-Yun Li Open the ORCID record for Guang-Yun Li [Opens in a new window]  and
Zhi-Qiang Zhang Open the ORCID record for Zhi-Qiang Zhang [Opens in a new window]
Guang-Yun Li
Affiliation:
Centre for Biodiversity and Biosecurity, School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, 231 Morrin Road, Auckland1072, New Zealand
Zhi-Qiang Zhang*
Affiliation:
Centre for Biodiversity and Biosecurity, School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, 231 Morrin Road, Auckland1072, New Zealand
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Author for correspondence: Zhi-Qiang Zhang, Email: zhangz@landcareresearch.co.nz
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Abstract

Sexual interaction is an important activity that determines the reproductive schedule of organisms and can ultimately influence the fitness traits of both sexes. Although the influence of sexual interaction on the fitness of females has been extensively determined, little is known about the effects on males, which often have different mating strategies and optimal mating regimes from those of females. To understand how mating regimes (timing and frequency) modulate the fitness in both sexes, we used spider mite (Tetranychus urticae) to investigate the influence of delayed mating and repeated mating on the fitness of male and female. For females, the unmated and the delayed mating females outlived those mated immediately after adult emergence. The repeated mating shortened the lifespan of females that mated at 1-day-old, but not that mated 7-day-old. However, no significant variation in lifespan was observed for males across different mating regimes. We found although delayed mating significantly reduced the daily reproductive rate of the females, there was no significant difference in lifetime reproduction of females across treatments because the delayed mating females increased their reproductive lifespan as a compensation. Our study highlighted that the time and frequency of sexual interaction showed a sex-specific consequence on male and female spider mites, indicating that sexual interaction incurs a higher cost to females which have a much lower optimal mating frequency than males.

Keywords

Delayed matinglongevityrepeated matingreproductionsex-specificspider mite
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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 111 , Issue 1 , February 2021 , pp. 49 - 56
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