ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION IN BLATTARIA FACULTATIVELY PARTHENOGENETIC
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https://doi.org/10.18554/acbiobras.v3i2.8749Keywords:
Cockroach, Evolution of sex, Sexual pheromoneAbstract
Optional parthenogenesis, observed in some groups of insects, is a reproductive strategy in which females can generate other females when sex is prevented or when the availability of ills is not. The cockroach Nauphoeta cinerea (Olivier, 1789) (Blattaria: Blaberidae) is suitable for addressing facultative parthenogenesis, not all females can change the sexual mode, so 10 virgin females were collected from a population and isolated in containers for observation of sexual behavior. Female number 8 produced the largest number of ootecas, while females 3 and 7 took longer to produce ootecas. The reduction of the period of production of the ooteca, collaborates for the increase of the parthenogenetic offspring produced by a female, being thus a population produced of parthenogenetic females would be viable for laboratory studies and in vivariums of breeding of cockroach predators.
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