caa a22 4500 386375585 CHVBK 20180307112017.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198910 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1742758400021718 doi S1742758400021718 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1742758400021718 Dipeolu Olusegun O. Parasitology Research Laboratory, Department of Pathology and Parasitology, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.A. Evidence of heredity in oviposition capability of ticks [Elektronische Daten] [Olusegun O. Dipeolu] Populations of Rhipicephtdus sanguineus, Dermacentor variabilis and Amblyomma maculatum with high and low oviposition capacities were successfully bred in the laboratory. Mating of male and female ticks which possess high oviposition capacity produced female progenies with high oviposition capacity; male and female ticks which possess low oviposition capacity produced female progenies which possess low oviposition capacity. Crossmatings of males with females of opposite oviposition capacity produced female progenies which acquired the category of oviposition capacity of the males in predominant numbers after fourth and fifth generations. It is suggested that the genetic factor for high or low oviposition capacity is either possessed by male ticks alone or is stronger and dominant in the male over that of the female. This genetic factor is also potentiated by successive crossmatings of males and females possessing opposite oviposition capacities. The possible application of these results to tick control through the suppression of natural population by field release of laboratory-bred populations of male ticks which possess low oviposition capacity is discussed. Copyright © ICIPE 1989 Ticks nationallicence heredity nationallicence oviposition capacity nationallicence mating nationallicence generations nationallicence genetic factors nationallicence Rhipicephalus sanguineus nationallicence Dermacentor variabilis nationallicence Amblyomma maculatum nationallicence Tiques nationallicence hérédité nationallicence potentiel de ponte nationallicence reproduction nationallicence générations nationallicence facteurs génétiques nationallicence Rhipicephalus sanguineus nationallicence Dermacentor variabilis nationallicence Amblyomma maculatum nationallicence International Journal of Tropical Insect Science Cambridge University Press 10/5(1989-10), 591-599 1742-7584 10:5<591 1989 10 JTI https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742758400021718 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742758400021718 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Dipeolu Olusegun O. Parasitology Research Laboratory, Department of Pathology and Parasitology, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.A NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Tropical Insect Science Cambridge University Press 10/5(1989-10), 591-599 1742-7584 10:5<591 1989 10 JTI CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge