ArticleJournal of medical entomology2018
The Effect of Larval Diet on Adult Survival, Swarming Activity and Copulation Success in Male Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae).
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- The microbiota impacts life history traits and mating success in malebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Pickpocket315 affects male mating behavior in the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Article
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- Interspecific mating bias may drivePNAS nexus · 2022Article
- Elimination of a closed population of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, through releases of self-limiting male mosquitoes.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
- Mosquito Sexual Selection and Reproductive Control Programs.Trends in parasitology · 2021Review
- Realism in Immune Ecology Studies: Artificial Diet Enhances a Caterpillar's Immune Defense but Does Not Mask the Effects of a Plastic Immune Strategy.Frontiers in insect science · 2021Article
- Mating Competitiveness of Transgenic Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) Males Against Wild-Type Males Reared Under Simulated Field Conditions.Journal of medical entomology · 2020Article
- Too "sexy" for the field? Paired measures of laboratory and semi-field performance highlight variability in the apparent mating fitness of Aedes aegypti transgenic strains.Parasites & vectors · 2019Article
- Male competition and the evolution of mating and life-history traits in experimental populations of Aedes aegypti.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Female resistance and harmonic convergence influence male mating success in Aedes aegypti.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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Abstract
Control of Aedes aegypti (L.) (Diptera: Culicidae) populations is vital for reducing the transmission of several pervasive human diseases. The success of new vector control technologies will be influenced by the fitness of laboratory-reared transgenic males. However, there has been relatively little published data on how rearing practices influence male fitness in Aedes mosquitoes. In the laboratory, the effect of larval food availability on adult male fitness was tested, using a range of different fitness measures. Larval food availability was demonstrated to be positively correlated with adult body size. Larger males survived longer and exhibited greater swarming activity. As a consequence, larger males may have more mating opportunities in the wild. However, we also found that within a swarm larger males did not have an increased likelihood of copulating with a female. The outcome of the mating competition experiments depended on the methodology used to mark the males. These results show that fitness assessment can vary depending on the measure analyzed, and the methodology used to determine it. Continued investigation into these fitness measures and methodologies, and critically, their utility for predicting male performance in the field, will increase the efficiency of vector control programs.
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