WAWROCKA, Kamila Joanna, Ondrej BALVIN and Tomáš BARTONIČKA. Reproduction barrier between two lineages of bed bug (Cimex lectularius) (Heteroptera: Cimicidae). Parasitology Research. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015, 2015, vol. 114, No 8, p. 3019-3025. ISSN 0932-0113. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00436-015-4504-1.
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Original name Reproduction barrier between two lineages of bed bug (Cimex lectularius) (Heteroptera: Cimicidae)
Authors WAWROCKA, Kamila Joanna (616 Poland, belonging to the institution), Ondrej BALVIN (203 Czech Republic) and Tomáš BARTONIČKA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
Edition Parasitology Research, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015, 2015, 0932-0113.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10600 1.6 Biological sciences
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Impact factor Impact factor: 2.027
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/15:00082853
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00436-015-4504-1
UT WoS 000358410600024
Keywords (in Czech) hybrydyzace Cimicids
Keywords in English Hybridization . Cimicids . Artificial feeding . Sperm presence
Tags AKR
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: doc. Mgr. Tomáš Bartonička, Ph.D., učo 54832. Changed: 19/2/2018 10:40.
Abstract
Populations of bed bugs, Cimex lectularius, have increased in recent years spreading into numerous urban areas across the Western world and making them an increasingly important pest of the twenty-first century. Research into hybridization within and between different lineages of bed bugs can help us to understand processes of micro- and macroevolution in these ectoparasites and may inform the control of this pest species. Hybridization experiments between two host lineages of bed bug (C. lectularius) from Central Europe (Czech Republic), those associated with humans and those with bats, were conducted under laboratory conditions. Number of eggs and early instars were compared between crosses of mixed host lineages (interspecific mating) with pairs from the same host lineage, those from the same locality and same lineage from different localities (intraspecific mating). While crosses within host lineages resulted in egg production and later instars, crosses between different host lineages were unsuccessful, although of the mated females possessed sperm in their mesospermaleges and/or seminal conceptacles. These crosses did not even result in egg production. Moreover, in the mixed lineage crosses, mortality rates in adults were higher (51 and 50 % higher in bat and human lineage, respectively) than in those animals from the same lineage. Survival of adults was in pairs from the same locality slightly higher than in pairs from different localities and differed statistically. These results support the existence of postmating barriers and show reproductive isolation between two lineages of C. lectularius. Bat and human host adaptations can promote evolving of such barriers and can be product of alloxenic speciation.
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