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Breeding & Nymph Care
Inbreeding
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<blockquote data-quote="specy" data-source="post: 3412" data-attributes="member: 131"><p>Thanks for the replies. So it seems that inbreeding isnt a problem for mantids. I remember reading an article about wolf spiders a while ago:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3218509.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3218509.stm</a></p><p></p><p>I suppose these guys just dont really care much about inbreeding. I guess, statistically speaking, with the amount of nymphs produced at each generation and the relatively short time span of each generation, enough genetic variations could be developed?</p><p></p><p>It would be interesting to see if mantids exercise the same behavour, (i.e., female less likely to eat the male if it looks familiar) coz for some species, the male also matures faster than the female.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="specy, post: 3412, member: 131"] Thanks for the replies. So it seems that inbreeding isnt a problem for mantids. I remember reading an article about wolf spiders a while ago: [URL="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3218509.stm"]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3218509.stm[/URL] I suppose these guys just dont really care much about inbreeding. I guess, statistically speaking, with the amount of nymphs produced at each generation and the relatively short time span of each generation, enough genetic variations could be developed? It would be interesting to see if mantids exercise the same behavour, (i.e., female less likely to eat the male if it looks familiar) coz for some species, the male also matures faster than the female. [/QUOTE]
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