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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology ›› 2000, Vol. ›› Issue (1): 136-138.

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Influence of fluctuating ecological factors on male occurrence of Moina macrocopa

WANG Jinqiu1, ZHANG Jiayi1, HUANG Bo2   

  1. 1. Department of Environmental and Resources Biology, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433;
    2. Department of Biology, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062
  • Received:1998-06-29 Revised:1998-12-16 Online:2000-01-25

Abstract: Studies with clonal culture show that female M.macrocopa did not produce male progeny directly,or,in other words,the parthenogenetic(amictic) female could not transform into microtic(amphoteric) female,when suffered from one-off acute or durative progressive stimulation.Under durative progressive stimulation by illumination,temperature,food density or pH,the intrinsic rates of increase were 0.7748,0.7481,0.6539 and 0.6310 d -1 ind -1,0.9%,4.0%, 16.4 % and 19.3% less than the control,respectively,indicating that the animal was more sensitive to the fluctuation of food density and pH followed by temperature.

Key words: Moina macrocopa, Male occurrence, Amphoteric female, Parthenogenetic female, Ecological factors