Variation in Population Sex Ratio and Mating Success of Asexual Lineages of Alsophila pometaria (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)

Authors

Lawrence G. Harshman, University of Nebraska–LincolnFollow
Douglas J. Futuyma, State University of New York at Stony BrookFollow

Date of this Version

7-1985

Document Type

Article

Citation

Annals of the Entomological Society of America 78:4 (July 1985), pp. 456–458.

doi: http://0-dx.doi.org.library.unl.edu/10.1093/aesa/78.4.456

Comments

Copyright © 1985 Entomological Society of America. Used by permission.

Abstract

Populations of Alsophila pometaria (Harris) are largely gynogenetic and composed of asexual females that must mate with a conspecific male to reproduce. Within this asexual contingent, there are a variety of electrophoretically defined multilocus genotypes. In this study we found that populations differ in sex ratio. We also found that there is an indication of differential mating success among asexual genotypes in a population of A. pometaria.