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Sperm-depleted males of the two-spotted spider mite can replenish sperm in a few hours

In many animals, males increase their reproductive success by mating with as many females as possible. The number of females a male can fertilize is often limited by male competition for access to females, spe...

Aina Yokoi, Taito Sano, Sayuka Nagase, Ayana Tanino… in Experimental and Applied Acarology (2023)

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The operational sex ratio experienced by mothers modulates the expression of sons’ alternative reproductive tactics in spider mites

Intense male competition for access to females has often led to the evolution of alternative reproductive tactics (ARTs) such as sneaking, female mimicking, and satellite behavior. In many cases, which tactic ...

Yukie Sato, Martijn Egas, Peter Schausberger in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (2023)

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Habitat and seasonal occurrence differ among closely related species of the Drosophila auraria species complex (Diptera: Drosophilidae)

Closely related species often exhibit similar niches and reproductive interactions. As competition for shared resources, reproductive interference, and hybridization may exclude one or the other species, the c...

Moe Onuma, Yukie Sato, Kyoichi Sawamura in Applied Entomology and Zoology (2023)

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Males mate with females even after sperm depletion in the two-spotted spider mite

Generally, males increase their reproductive success by mating with as many females as possible, whereas females increase their reproductive success by choosing males who provide more direct and indirect benef...

Hisaho Kobayashi, Yukie Sato, Martijn Egas in Experimental and Applied Acarology (2022)

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Color Preference and Associative Color Learning in a Parasitoid Wasp, Ascogaster reticulata (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Natural enemies of agricultural pests, such as parasitoids and predators, often use chemical and visual cues in search of their hosts and prey, and they can learn the association between the cues and the host ...

Risa Kawamata, Yukie Sato, Miki Suzuki, Yooichi Kainoh in Journal of Insect Behavior (2018)

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Patients with axillary Paget’s disease should be carefully screened for other sites affected by the disease

Reika Fukuchi, Yutaka Kuwatsuka, Yuta Koike, Yukie Sato… in European Journal of Dermatology (2018)

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Variation in nesting behavior of eight species of spider mites, Stigmaeopsis having sociality

Nesting behavior is considered to be an important element of social living in animals. The spider mites belonging to the genus Stigmaeopsis spend their lives within nests produced from silk threads. Several of th...

Yutaka Saito, Yan-Xuan Zhang, Kotaro Mori, Katsura Ito, Yukie Sato… in The Science of Nature (2016)

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Oviposition preference for leaf age in the smaller tea tortrix Adoxophyes honmai (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) as related to performance of neonates

Adoxophyes honmai Yasuda (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) is a serious pest of tea plants in Japan. Damage caused by larvae is widely distributed throughout tea plantations, but the modes of ov...

Narisara Piyasaengthong, Yukie Sato, Natsuko Kinoshita… in Applied Entomology and Zoology (2016)

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Sex-specific elicitor from Adoxophyes honmai (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) induces tea leaf to arrest the egg–larval parasitoid Ascogaster reticulata (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Ascogaster reticulata Watanabe (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) is an egg–larval endoparasitoid wasp of several tortricid species, including Adoxophyes honmai Yasuda (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). ...

Narisara Piyasaengthong, Natsuko Kinoshita, Yukie Sato… in Applied Entomology and Zoology (2016)

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Why do males choose heterospecific females in the red spider mite?

In some species, males readily show courtship behaviour towards heterospecific females and even prefer them to females of their own species. This behaviour is generally explained by indiscriminate mating to ac...

Yukie Sato, Heike Staudacher, Maurice W. Sabelis in Experimental and Applied Acarology (2016)

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Neoseiulus paspalivorus, a predator from coconut, as a candidate for controlling dry bulb mites infesting stored tulip bulbs

The dry bulb mite, Aceria tulipae, is the most important pest of stored tulip bulbs in The Netherlands. This tiny, eriophyoid mite hides in the narrow space between scales in the interior of the bulb. To achieve ...

Izabela Lesna, Fernando R. da Silva, Yukie Sato… in Experimental and Applied Acarology (2014)

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Asymmetry in male lethal fight between parapatric forms of a social spider mite

Closely related species often show adjacent geographic distributions, albeit with some overlap. This contiguity is thought to result from secondary contact between (spatially separated) diverging groups or fro...

Yukie Sato, Maurice W. Sabelis, Atsushi Mochizuki in Experimental and Applied Acarology (2013)

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Life history differences between two forms of the social spider mite, Stigmaeopsis miscanthi

The two forms of Stigmaeopsis miscanthi (Saito) (called LW and HG) differ in their levels of male-to-male aggression, differ in their diapause attributes, and morphologically in the male leg I armor. Furthermore,...

Yutaka Saito, Miki Kanazawa, Yukie Sato in Experimental and Applied Acarology (2013)