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Sperm Competition in the Swallowtail Butterflies: final conflict of apyrene sperm

Research Project

Project/Area Number 24570019
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Ecology/Environment
Research InstitutionUniversity of Tsukuba

Principal Investigator

WATANABE Mamoru  筑波大学, 生命環境系, 教授 (80167171)

Project Period (FY) 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
Budget Amount *help
¥5,590,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,290,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Keywords有核精子 / 無核精子 / 交尾嚢 / 受精嚢 / 精子移動 / 精包 / 精子活性 / 単婚制 / ジャコウアゲハ / キタキチョウ / 成虫越冬 / 回転活性 / 消失数 / 有核精子束
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Lepidopteran males including swallowtail butterflies transfer two types of sperm, nucleated eupyrene and non-nucleated apyrene sperm, within a single spermatophore. Both types of sperm migrate to the spermatheca. The cheap filler hypothesis has been proposed on the role of apyrene sperm in the polyandrous species, where motile apyrene sperm in the spermatheca reduce female receptivity of re-mating. Males of monandrous species also produce apyrene sperm, migrating to the spermatheca. Sperm dynamics and the motility of apyrene sperm in the spermatheca after copulation were examined in polyandrous and monandrous species. In the polyandrous species, apyrene sperm disappeared from the spermatheca in a couple of days after the copulation. In the monandrous species, although apyrene sperm remain in the spermatheca long time after copulation, they lost the motility soon after the migration to the spermatheca. Then, alternative hypotheses of the role of apyrene sperm was discussed.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2014 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2013 Research-status Report
  • 2012 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (23 results)

All 2016 2015 2014 2013 Other

All Journal Article (4 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 4 results,  Open Access: 3 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 3 results) Presentation (18 results) (of which Invited: 1 results) Book (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Alternative ejaculate allocation tactics in relation to male mating history of the swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus L. (Lepidoptera; Papilionidae)2015

    • Author(s)
      Sasaki, N. & M. Watanabe
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera

      Volume: 48

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Estimates of female lifetime fecundity and changes in the number and types of sperm stored with age and time since mating in the monandrous swallowtail butterfly, Battus philenor, in the Arizona desert2015

    • Author(s)
      Konagaya, T., N. Mutoh, M. Suzuki, R. L. Rutowski & M. Watanabe
    • Journal Title

      Applied Entomology and Zoology

      Volume: 50 Issue: 3 Pages: 311-316

    • DOI

      10.1007/s13355-015-0336-9

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Adaptive significance of the mating of autumn-morph females with non-overwintering summer-morph males in the Japanese common grass yellow, Eurema mandarina (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)2015

    • Author(s)
      Konagaya, T. & M. Watanabe
    • Journal Title

      Applied Entomology and Zoology

      Volume: 50 Issue: 1 Pages: 41-47

    • DOI

      10.1007/s13355-014-0300-0

    • NAID

      40020374307

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] キタキチョウの夏型雄の精子生産と注入精子数2013

    • Author(s)
      小長谷達郎・渡辺 守
    • Journal Title

      応動昆

      Volume: 57 Pages: 243-248

    • NAID

      130004783525

    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] 成虫越冬するキタキチョウ秋型雌の交尾戦略2015

    • Author(s)
      小長谷達郎・渡辺 守
    • Organizer
      第59回日本応用動物昆虫学会大会
    • Place of Presentation
      山形大学、山形
    • Year and Date
      2015-03-27 – 2015-03-28
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] ジャコウアゲハの雌体内における注入精子の動態と活性2015

    • Author(s)
      井戸川直人・小長谷達郎・渡辺 守
    • Organizer
      第59回日本応用動物昆虫学会大会
    • Place of Presentation
      山形大学、山形
    • Year and Date
      2015-03-27 – 2015-03-28
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 成虫越冬するキタキチョウの秋型雌をめぐる夏型雄と秋型雄の移動戦略2015

    • Author(s)
      小長谷達郎・渡辺 守
    • Organizer
      第62回日本生態学会大会
    • Place of Presentation
      鹿児島大学、鹿児島
    • Year and Date
      2015-03-19
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] アリゾナ砂漠における単婚制のアオジャコウアゲハの雌の卵生産と保有精子数2014

    • Author(s)
      鈴木瑞穂・小長谷達郎・武藤直樹・渡辺 守
    • Organizer
      第33回日本動物行動学会大会
    • Place of Presentation
      長崎大学、長崎
    • Year and Date
      2014-11-02
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 単婚性のジャコウアゲハにおける精子注入数と雌体内での精子動態2014

    • Author(s)
      小長谷達郎・井戸川直人・渡辺 守
    • Organizer
      第33回日本動物行動学会大会
    • Place of Presentation
      長崎大学、長崎
    • Year and Date
      2014-11-01
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Adaptive significance of pre-overwinter copulation in females with non-overwinter males in the Japanese common grass yellow, Eurema mandarina2014

    • Author(s)
      Konagaya, T. & M. Watanabe
    • Organizer
      7th International Conference on the Biology of Butterflies
    • Place of Presentation
      Turku, Finland
    • Year and Date
      2014-08-13
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] アゲハ類における有核精子の活性と無核精子の役割2014

    • Author(s)
      渡辺 守・武藤直樹
    • Organizer
      第58回日本応用動物昆虫学会大会
    • Place of Presentation
      高知大学
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] キタキチョウの秋型雌が越冬前と越冬後に交尾する意義2014

    • Author(s)
      小長谷達郎・渡辺 守
    • Organizer
      第61回日本生態学会大会
    • Place of Presentation
      広島国際会議場
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Factors affecting mating activity of virgin males on the sperm number produced in Japanese small yellow sulfur, Eurema mandarina2013

    • Author(s)
      Konagaya, T. & M. Watanabe
    • Organizer
      62nd Annual Meeting of the Lepidopterists' Society
    • Place of Presentation
      Hilton Hotel, Florida, U.S.A.
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Eupyrene sperm migration in relation to the number of apyrene sperm transferred in the swallowtail butterflies2013

    • Author(s)
      Muto, N. & M. Watanabe
    • Organizer
      62nd Annual Meeting of the Lepidopterists' Society
    • Place of Presentation
      Hilton Hotel, Florida, U.S.A.
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] キタキチョウの成虫越冬する雌は冬を越せない雄の足下を見る?2013

    • Author(s)
      小長谷達郎・渡辺 守
    • Organizer
      第32回日本動物行動学会大会
    • Place of Presentation
      広島国際会議場
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] The role of apyrene sperm in the polyandrous swallowtail butterflies

    • Author(s)
      Watanabe, M.
    • Organizer
      XXIV International Congress of Entomology
    • Place of Presentation
      Daegu, Korea
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] キタキチョウの季節型と雄の注入精子数

    • Author(s)
      小長谷達郎・渡辺 守
    • Organizer
      第31回日本動物行動学会大会
    • Place of Presentation
      奈良、奈良女子大学
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] キタキチョウの雄の精子生産過程

    • Author(s)
      小長谷達郎・東 敬義・渡辺 守
    • Organizer
      日本生物教育学会第94回全国大会
    • Place of Presentation
      広島、広島大学
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] キタキチョウの雄の精子生産速度と注入精子数

    • Author(s)
      小長谷達郎・渡辺 守
    • Organizer
      第60回日本生態学会大会
    • Place of Presentation
      靜岡、静岡県コンベンションアーツセンター
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] アゲハ類の精子における運動活性

    • Author(s)
      武藤直樹・渡辺 守
    • Organizer
      第31回日本動物行動学会大会
    • Place of Presentation
      奈良、奈良女子大学
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] アゲハ類における精子の移動と活性の観察

    • Author(s)
      武藤直樹・渡辺 守
    • Organizer
      日本生物教育学会第94回全国大会
    • Place of Presentation
      広島、広島大学
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] アゲハ類における精子の授受と活性

    • Author(s)
      武藤直樹・滝 若菜・渡辺 守
    • Organizer
      第60回日本生態学会大会
    • Place of Presentation
      靜岡、静岡県コンベンションアーツセンター
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Sperm Competition in Butterflies2016

    • Author(s)
      Mamoru Watanabe
    • Publisher
      Springer
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2013-05-31   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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