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Mating system, optimal number of matings, and sperm transfer in the Argentine antIridomyrmex humilis

✍ Scribed by L. Keller; L. Passera

Publisher: Springer
Year: 1992
Tongue: English
Weight: 1019 KB
Volume: 31
Category: Article
ISSN: 0340-5443
DOI: 10.1007/bf00177776

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✦ Synopsis

In ants, because males have a finite sperm supply and females mate only at the beginning of their reproductive lives, it is possible to infer which is the limiting sex from a few parameters: the amount of sperm produced by males, the amount of sperm stored by females, and the numerical sex ratio. In the Argentine Correspondence to .' L. Keller of the sperm transfer. Thus caution should be exercised in inferring multiple inseminations, as is frequently done in eusocial insects, from the observation of multiple copulations.

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