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The role of copulatory plugs in mosquito-parasitic nematode Strelkovimermis spiculatus
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The role of copulatory plugs in mosquito-parasitic nematode Strelkovimermis spiculatus
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Lan
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Yu-Han
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1991-
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Yu-Han Lan
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Randy Gaugler
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2016-10
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2016
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The mosquito-parasitic nematode, Strelkovimermis spiculatus (Mermithidae: Nematoda) emerges from hosts and aggregates to form mating clusters characterized by intense male-male competition for females. Successful males deposit a copulatory plug over the female vulva after mating. In choice experiments, males strongly preferred virgin females, whereas plugged females were ignored. Males were not observed attempting to remove the plug nor endeavoring to mate. Females with a copulatory plug repelled males. The observed chemical repellency was independent of females, since excised plugs alone showed the same negative male response. The plug contributes significantly to female fitness because removal of the plug after mating was found to reduce fecundity by 90%. About average of 805 spermatids were found to leak out from a female in the first 2 h after plug removal. Our initial hypothesis that the plug provides a nutritional gift was rejected due to the fact that there was no post-mating reduction in plug size that would have indicated absorption.
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Entomology
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (vii, 24 p. : ill.)
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M.S.
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Includes bibliographical references
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Mosquitoes
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Insects--Reproduction
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by Yu-Han Lan
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doi:10.7282/T36112MK
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ETD graduate
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Lan
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Yu-Han
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2016-09-26 00:10:09
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Yu-Han Lan
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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