{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["14(11)"],"submitter":["Shavrova AJ"],"pubmed_abstract":["Our understanding of sexual selection is advancing with new technologies that tag individuals or their sperm, revealing how females use post-copulatory processes to discriminate between competing mates. Many tagging methods have been devised primarily for model insect organisms like <i>Drosophila</i> or Gryllidae. Developing such novel methods, however, is expensive and requires intensive investment. In this experiment, we trial the use of Rhodamine B (RhB) and Rhodamine 110 (Rh110) in a small arachnid, the bulb mite <i>Rhizoglyphus echinopus</i>, for pre- and post-copulatory observations as it is a relatively inexpensive and simple way to tag individuals and their ejaculate proteins. First, we tested whether RhB and Rh110 applied to food can be used as a tagging method to track and distin"],"journal":["Ecology and evolution"],"pagination":["e70525"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11537705"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Using Rhodamine to Tag Mites for Studies of Pre- and Post-Copulatory Sexual Selection."],"pmcid":["PMC11537705"],"pubmed_authors":["Buzatto BA","Kasumovic MM","Shavrova AJ"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Using Rhodamine to Tag Mites for Studies of Pre- and Post-Copulatory Sexual Selection.","description":"Our understanding of sexual selection is advancing with new technologies that tag individuals or their sperm, revealing how females use post-copulatory processes to discriminate between competing mates. Many tagging methods have been devised primarily for model insect organisms like <i>Drosophila</i> or Gryllidae. Developing such novel methods, however, is expensive and requires intensive investment. In this experiment, we trial the use of Rhodamine B (RhB) and Rhodamine 110 (Rh110) in a small arachnid, the bulb mite <i>Rhizoglyphus echinopus</i>, for pre- and post-copulatory observations as it is a relatively inexpensive and simple way to tag individuals and their ejaculate proteins. First, we tested whether RhB and Rh110 applied to food can be used as a tagging method to track and distin","dates":{"release":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2024 Nov","modification":"2025-04-04T02:12:38.917Z","creation":"2025-04-04T02:12:38.917Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11537705","cross_references":{"pubmed":["39502461"],"doi":["10.1002/ece3.70525"]}}