Giant sperm in a Neotropical moth Xenosoma geometrina (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae)

European Journal of Entomology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 281-283

  Morrow, Edward H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctiidae; Costa Rica; Eupyrene; Lepidoptera; Sperm competition; Sperm size; Xenosoma

Indexed keywords

SPERM;

ARCTIIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0033868178     PISSN: 12105759     EISSN: 18028829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14411/eje.2000.045     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. AFZELIUS B.A., BACCETTI B. & DALLAI R. 1976: The giant spermatozoon of Notonecta. J. Submicr. Cytol. 8: 149-161.
2. BRISKIE J.V., MONTGOMERIE R. & BIRKHEAD T.R. 1997: The evolution of sperm size in birds. Evolution 51: 937-945.
3. COOK P.A. & WEDELL N. 1999: Non-fertile sperm delay female remating. Nature (London) 397: 486.
4. CUMMINS J.M. & WOODALL P.F. 1985: On mammalian sperm dimensions. J. Reprod. Fert. 75: 153-175.
5. DEWSBURY D.A. 1982: Ejaculate cost and male choice. Am. Nat. 119: 601-610.
6. DRUMMOND B.A. 1984: Multiple mating and sperm competition in the Lepidoptera. In Smith R.L. (ed.): Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Animal Mating System. Academic Press, London, pp. 291-370.
7. FRIEDLÄNDER M. 1997: Control of the eupyrene-apyrene sperm dimorphism in Lepidoptera. J. Insect Physiol. 43: 1085-1092.
8. GAGE M.J.G. 1994: Associations between body size, mating pattern, testis size and sperm lengths across butterflies. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (B) 258: 247-254.
9. GAGE M.J.G. 1998: Mammalian sperm morphometry. Proc. R. Soc. Lond (B) 265: 97-103.
10. KARR T.L. & PITNICK S. 1996: The ins and outs of fertilization. Nature (London) 379: 405-406.
11. MAZZINI M. 1976: Giant spermatozoa in Divales bipustulatus F. (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Int. J. Insect Morphol. Embryol. 5: 107-115.
12. MEVES F. 1902: Uber oligopyrene und apyrene Spermien und über ihre Entstehung, nach Beobachtungen an Paludina und Pygaera. Arch. Mikrosk. Anat. 61: 1-84.
13. NORRIS M.J. 1932: Contributions towards the study of insect fertility. I. The structure and operation of the reproductive organs of the genera Ephestia and Plodia (Lepidoptera: Phycitidae). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1932: 595-611.
14. PARKER G.A. 1970: Sperm competition and its evolutionary consequences in the insects. Biol. Rev. 45: 525-567.
15. PARKER G.A. 1982: Why are there so many tiny sperm? Sperm competition and the maintenance of two sexes. J. Theor. Biol. 96: 281-294.
16. PARKER G.A. & BEGON M.E. 1993: Sperm competition games: sperm size and number under gametic control. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (B) 253: 255-262.
17. PHILIPS D.M. 1971: Morphogenesis of the lacinate appendages of lepidopteran spermatozoa. J. Ultrastruct. Res. 34: 567-585.
18. PITNICK S. & KARR T.L. 1998: Paternal products and by-products in Drosophila development. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (B) 265: 821-826.
19. PITNICK S. & MARKOW T.A. 1994a: Large-male advantages associated with costs of sperm production in Drosophila hydei, a species with giant sperm. Proc. Natn. Acad. Sci. USA 91: 9277-9281.
20. PITNICK S. & MARKOW T.A. 1994b: Male gametic strategies: sperm size, testes size, and the allocation of ejaculate among successive mates by the sperm-limited fly Drosophila pachea and its relatives. Am. Nat. 143: 785-819.
21. PITNICK S., MARKOW T.A. & SPICER G.S. 1995: Delayed male maturity is a cost of producing large sperm in Drosophila. Proc. Natn. Acad. Sci. USA 92: 10614-10618.
22. PRESGRAVES D.C., BAKER R.H. & WILKINSON G.S. 1999: Coevolution of sperm and female reproductive tract morphology in stalk-eyed flies. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (B) 266: 1041-1047.
23. SCHAUS W. 1910: Eloria geometrina. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 8: 408.
24. SEITZ A. 1925: The Macrolepidoptera of the World. Fauna Americana Vol. 6.
25. SILBERGLIED R.E., SHEPHERD J.G. & DICKINSON J.L. 1984: Eunuchs: the role of apyrene sperm in lepidoptera? Am. Nat. 123: 255-265.
26. SIVINSKI J. 1980: Sexual selection and insect sperm. Fla. Entomol. 60: 99-111.