Abstract
Tobacco budworms, Heliothis virescens (F.), suffered severely from inbreeding depression after one generation of brother-sister mating. Larval viability was particularly affected. Inadvertent selection for laboratory adaptation appeared to have a greater impact on mating behavior of females than of males. Maintenance of large colony sizes and outcrossing laboratory females to field-collected males may be practical methods of avoiding significant inbreeding depression in laboratory colonies.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 583-587 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Annals of the Entomological Society of America |
Volume | 79 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 1 1986 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Insect Science