Effects of male accessory gland substances on the pre-oviposition behaviour of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

1990 ◽  
Vol 36 (11) ◽  
pp. 799-803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chinchang Yeh ◽  
Marc J. Klowden
Keyword(s):  
Aedes Aegypti ◽  
Accessory Gland ◽  
Oviposition Behaviour ◽  
Male Accessory Gland

scholarly journals Male accessory gland molecules inhibit harmonic convergence in the mosquito Aedes aegypti

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. R196-R197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Garrett P. League ◽  
Lindsay L. Baxter ◽  
Mariana F. Wolfner ◽  
Laura C. Harrington
Keyword(s):  
Aedes Aegypti ◽  
Accessory Gland ◽  
Male Accessory Gland ◽  
Harmonic Convergence

scholarly journals Satyrization without evidence of successful insemination from interspecific mating between invasive mosquitoes

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 20150527 ◽  
Author(s):  
María C. Carrasquilla ◽  
L. Philip Lounibos
Keyword(s):  
Aedes Aegypti ◽  
Aedes Albopictus ◽  
Accessory Gland ◽  
Reproductive Interference ◽  
Interspecific Mating ◽  
Male Accessory Gland ◽  
Low Frequencies ◽  
Heterospecific Male ◽  
Invasive Mosquitoes ◽  
The Impact

Previous research has documented low frequencies of interspecific mating in nature between the invasive vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus . It is also known that heterospecific male accessory gland substances transferred during mating sterilize A. aegypti but not A. albopictus females, leading to satyrization, a form of reproductive interference. This paper demonstrates that satyrization of A. aegypti by A. albopictus may occur without evidence of successful insemination. Our results show that A. aegypti females, previously exposed to A. albopictus males, are rendered refractory to subsequent conspecific mating even though their spermathecae contain no heterospecific sperm. Additional experiments demonstrating transfer of labelled semen from A. albopictus males to A. aegypti females and low production of viable eggs of females housed with conspecific males, following exposure to A. albopictus males, confirm higher incidences of satyrization than expected, based on heterospecific insemination rates. We conclude that frequencies of satyrization based on detection of interspecific sperm in spermathecae may underestimate the impact of this form of reproductive interference.

FUNCTIONS OF THE MALE ACCESSORY GLAND SECRETIONS OF AEDES MOSQUITOES (DIPTERA: CULICIDAE): TRANSPLANTATION STUDIES

1976 ◽  
Vol 108 (9) ◽  
pp. 955-960 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Ramalingam ◽  
G. B. Craig
Keyword(s):  
Aedes Aegypti ◽  
Secretory Granules ◽  
Accessory Gland ◽  
Anterior Region ◽  
Male Accessory Gland ◽  
Male Accessory Glands ◽  
Accessory Glands ◽  
Aedes Mosquitoes ◽  
Species Specific

AbstractIn Aedes aegypti, the ’matrone’ substance which caused mating inhibition and stimulated oviposition in females, was present in the anterior secretory region of the male accessory glands. In the divided accessory glands of male A. triseriatus, however, it was present in the posterior glands. The posterior gland substance in A. triseriatus was not species specific. It stimulated oviposition in A. aegypti and caused mating inhibition in A. atropalpus. The secretory substance of the posteriormost region in the glands of both species of mosquitoes was mucin in nature. This mucin substance effectively glued the secretory granules of the anterior region(s).

scholarly journals Male accessory gland substances from Aedes albopictus affect the locomotor activity of Aedes aegypti females

2013 ◽  
Vol 108 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 18-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Nunes Lima-Camara ◽  
Claudia Torres Codeco ◽  
Nildimar Alves Honorio ◽  
Rafaela Vieira Bruno ◽  
Alexandre Afranio Peixoto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Locomotor Activity ◽  
Aedes Aegypti ◽  
Aedes Albopictus ◽  
Accessory Gland ◽  
Male Accessory Gland

Autogeny in saltmarsh mosquitoes induced by a substance from the male accessory gland

Nature ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 267 (5609) ◽  
pp. 342-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
GEORGE F. O'MEARA ◽  
DAVID G. EVANS
Keyword(s):  
Accessory Gland ◽  
Male Accessory Gland
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