| Title: | [Genetic bases for heterogeneity of a population of omnivorous Archips podana Scop. leaf roller moths (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) by morphological and behavioral traits] |
| Address: | "Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 117071 Russia. sevin@online.ru" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 0016-6758 (Print) 0016-6758 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Inheritance of morphological characters related to male and female genitalia was examined in Archips podana Scop. The position and number of aedeagus prongs had a monogenic diallelic mode of inheritance. In contrast to homozygous for P1 (prong A) and heterozygous (prong A + B) males, males homozygous for P2 (prong B) were characterized by much more active courtship. The gene correlates with a set of characters controlling individual ecology, exploring behavior of females, and feeding on different cultures. Morphological adult type 0 is an extremely weak form of phenotype B. Exploring activity of adults having phenotype B is the highest at the ratio of cis-tetradecenol to the other components of the female sex pheromone that leads to a somewhat lower activity of males of other phenotypes. In females, no regularities in inheritance of phenotypic characters were revealed. A hypothesis on a mechanism for maintenance of population stability for the given phenotypes is advanced and a possible mechanism for microevolution of a polymorphic species is proposed" |
| Keywords: | "Animals Female *Genetic Heterogeneity Genitalia, Female/anatomy & histology Genitalia, Male/anatomy & histology Heterozygote Homozygote Lepidoptera/anatomy & histology/*genetics/physiology Male Phenotype Sex Attractants/physiology;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineSafonkin, A F Kulikov, A M rus English Abstract Russia (Federation) 2001/05/19 Genetika. 2001 Mar; 37(3):317-24" |
