The effect of age on the fertility of males of Culex molestus (Diptera, Culicidae).
Older males of C. molestus have a markedly lowered fertility (even by 50%) and the image productivity of their progeny is much lower than that of freshly hatched males (more than 6X). This fact may hinder the population explosion particularly in those species whose individual generations coincide in the course of a year or are much diffused.
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Institute of Parasitology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Ceské Budĕjovice.
D000375:Aging; D000818:Animals; D003465:Culex / Q000502:physiology*; D005298:Fertility; D008297:Male; D012098:Reproduction