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Mate choice test with eye color mutant of the brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens Stål
In the previous study, we found an orange-eyed mutant of the brown planthopper (BPH). And we confirmed that it’s orange phenotype is controlled by single recessive allele in the autosome. To understand the effect of the orange eye color on mating of BPH, we designed two different combinations of the mate choice test with three virgin female and male BPH adults. The one consisted of orange-eyed female (org/org), orange-eyed male (org/org), and homozygous normal-eyed male (+/+) (female mate choice). The other was composed of orange-eyed male (org/org), orange-eyed female (org/org), and homozygous normal-eyed female (+/+) (male mate choice). In female mate choice test, four mating types could be distinguished according to the distribution of the eye-color phenotype in F1 progeny and their hatching-order in each mating pair. Two mating types showed only one eye-color phenotype, normal and orange, respectively, and the other two produced both eye-color phenotypes in a different hatching-order. In male mate choice test, both phenotypes of offsprings were also produced in most mating pairs. From these results, the effect of eye color on mating of BPH was not clearly found, but the multiple mating in both sexes and the mating preference by female are cautiously suggested.
