No water, no mating: Connecting dots from behaviour to pathways.

ABSTRACT: Insects hold considerable ecological and agricultural importance making it vital to understand the factors impacting their reproductive output. Environmental stressors are examples of such factors which have a substantial and significant influence on insect reproductive fitness. Insects are also ectothermic and small in size which makes them even more susceptible to environmental stresses. The present study assesses the consequence of desiccation on the mating latency and copulations duration in tropical Drosophila melanogaster. We tested flies for these reproductive behavioral parameters at varying body water levels and with whole metabolome analysis in order to gain a further understanding of the physiological response to desiccation. Our results showed that the duration of desiccation i

SUBMITTER: Arya H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8192009 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature