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Cost of reproduction in male medflies: The primacy of sexual courting in extreme longevity reduction

Papadopoulos, N. T.; Liedo, P.; Müller, H. G.; Wang, J. L.; Molleman, F.; Carey, J. R. (2010)

In polygynous insect species, male reproductive success is directly related to lifetime mating success. However, the costs for males of sexual activities such as courting, signaling, and mating are largely unknown. We ...
Dietary effects on sex-specific health dynamics of medfly: Support for the dynamic equilibrium model of aging

Papadopoulos, N. T.; Papanastasiou, S.; Müller, H. G.; Wang, J. L.; Yang, W.; Carey, J. R. (2011)

We examined experimentally the relationship between the period of unhealthy life and longevity in the medfly by using the first sign of supine behavior (upside down; immobile) in medflies as an indication of their poor ...
Life history evolution in a globally invading tephritid: Patterns of survival and reproduction in medflies from six world regions

Diamantidis, A. D.; Papadopoulos, N. T.; Nakas, C. T.; Wu, S.; MÜller, H. G.; Carey, J. R. (2009)

Comparisons among populations from different localities represent an important tool in the study of evolution. Medflies have colonized many temperate and tropical areas all over the world during the last few centuries. In ...
Life table assay of field-caught mediterranean fruit flies, ceratitis capitata, reveals age bias

Kouloussis, N. A.; Papadopoulos, N. T.; Müller, H. G.; Wang, J. L.; Mao, M.; Katsoyannos, B. I.; Duyck, P. F.; Carey, J. R. (2009)

Though traps are used widely to sample phytophagous insects for research or management purposes, and recently in aging research, possible bias stemming from differential response of individuals of various ages to traps has ...
Lifespan of a Ceratitis fruit fly increases with higher altitude

Duyck, P. F.; Kouloussis, N. A.; Papadopoulos, N. T.; Quilici, S.; Wang, J. L.; Jiang, C. R.; Müller, H. G.; Carey, J. R. (2010)

Variation in lifespan may be linked to geographic factors. Although latitudinal variation in lifespan has been studied for a number of species, altitude variation has received much less attention, particularly in insects. ...
Organophosphate resistance in olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae, populations in Greece and Cyprus

Skouras, P. J.; Margaritopoulos, J. T.; Seraphides, N. A.; Ioannides, I. M.; Kakani, E. G.; Mathiopoulos, K. D.; Atsitsipis, J. (2007)

The olive fruit fly Bactrocera oleae (Gmelin) (Diptera: Tephritidae) is the most important pest of olives in countries around the Mediterranean basin. Its control has been based mostly on bait sprays with organophosphate ...
Reproduction is adapted to survival characteristics across geographically isolated medfly populations

Müller, H. G.; Wu, S.; Diamantidis, A. D.; Papadopoulos, N. T.; Carey, J. R. (2009)

We propose the hypothesis that individual longitudinal trajectories of fertility are closely coupled to varying survival schedules across geographically isolated populations of the same species, in such a way that peak ...
Seasonal trends in ceratitis capitata reproductive potential derived from live-caught females in Greece

Kouloussis, N. A.; Papadopoulos, N. T.; Katsoyannos, B. I.; Müller, H. G.; Wang, J. L.; Su, Y. R.; Molleman, F.; Carey, J. R. (2011)

Reproductive data of individual insects are extremely hard to collect under natural conditions, thus the study of research questions related to oviposition has not advanced. Patterns of oviposition are often inferred only ...
Virgin females compete for mates in the male lekking species Ceratitis capitata

Papadopoulos, N. T.; Carey, J. R.; Liedo, P.; MÜller, H. G.; SentÜrk, D. (2009)

Aggressive behaviour occurring in intrasexual competition is an important trait for animal fitness. Although female intrasexual aggression is reported in several insect species, little is known about female competition and ...