REPRODUCTIVE RATES OF TSETSE-FLIES IN THE FIELD IN ZIMBABWE
REPRODUCTIVE RATES OF TSETSE-FLIES IN THE FIELD IN ZIMBABWE
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-3032.1994.tb01057.x
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发表时间:
1994-12-01
影响因子:
1.5
通讯作者:
HARGROVE, JW
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作者:
HARGROVE, JW
Tsetse flies Glossina morsitans morsitans Westwood and G. pallidipes Austen were marked and released within 12h of emergence at Rekomitjie Research Station, Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe, and on Redcliff Island, Lake Kariba. Ovarian dissections were performed on recaptured flies and on wild collected samples. At Rekomitjie >90% of female G. m. morsitans were inseminated by age 4 days and G. pallidipes by 7 days. For both species at both sites the length of the largest oocyte, for flies in ovarian category zero, increased approximately linearly for about the first 6 days and was ovulated at c. 6-8 days. The largest oocyte grew significantly more slowly in later cycles. For G. m. morsitans, but not for G. pallidipes, the rate increased with temperature; the rates were always higher than observed in the laboratory. At Rekomitjie, for both species and at a mean screen temperature of 22 degrees C, the first larva was produced at c. 18 days and subsequent larvae at 11-day intervals; the intervals decreased with temperature by c. 0.5 days/degrees C. On Redcliff Island the intervals for both species were 2 days shorter than at Rekomitjie at any given screen temperature and were sometimes as short as 7 days. The length of the larva in utero increased exponentially during pregnancy.