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Gilbert R, Uetz GW. Infection influences vibratory signal components in a wolf spider. Ethology 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/eth.13319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Rachel Gilbert
- Department of Biological Sciences University of Cincinnati Cincinnati Ohio USA
- NASA Ames Research Center Mountain View California USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences University of Cincinnati Cincinnati Ohio USA
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White TE, Latty T, Umbers KDL. The exploitation of sexual signals by predators: a meta-analysis. Proc Biol Sci 2022; 289:20220444. [PMID: 35642366 PMCID: PMC9156902 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.0444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Sexual signals are often central to reproduction, and their expression is thought to strike a balance between advertising to mates and avoiding detection by predatory eavesdroppers. Tests of the predicted predation costs have produced mixed results, however. Here we synthesized 187 effects from 78 experimental studies in a meta-analytic test of two questions; namely, whether predators, parasites and parasitoids express preferences for the sexual signals of prey, and whether sexual signals increase realized predation risk in the wild. We found that predators and parasitoids express strong and consistent preferences for signals in forced-choice contexts. We found a similarly strong overall increase in predation on sexual signallers in the wild, though here it was modality specific. Olfactory and acoustic signals increased the incidence of eavesdropping relative to visual signals, which experienced no greater risk than controls on average. Variation in outcome measures was universally high, suggesting that contexts in which sexual signalling may incur no cost, or even reduce the incidence of predation, are common. Our results reveal unexpected complexity in a central viability cost to sexual signalling, while also speaking to applied problems in invasion biology and pest management where signal exploitation holds promise for bio-inspired solutions.
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- Thomas E. White
- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney 2106, Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney 2106, Australia
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- School of Science, Western Sydney University, Sydney, New South Wales 2751, Australia,Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales 2751, Australia
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Learning how to eavesdrop in multiple modalities: a test of associative learning using unimodal and multimodal playback. Anim Behav 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.05.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Geipel I, Kernan CE, Litterer AS, Carter GG, Page RA, Ter Hofstede HM. Predation risks of signalling and searching: bats prefer moving katydids. Biol Lett 2020; 16:20190837. [PMID: 32315594 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2019.0837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Males signalling their attractiveness to females are at risk from predators that exploit mating signals to detect and locate prey. Signalling, however, is not the only risky activity in sexual interactions: mate searching can incur risk as well. Male Neotropical pseudophylline katydids produce both acoustic and vibrational signals (tremulations). Females reply to male signals with tremulations of their own, and both sexes walk to find one another. We asked if movement increases predation risk, and whether tremulation or walking was more attractive to predators. We offered the Neotropical gleaning bat Micronycteris microtis a series of two-choice tests, presenting the bats with katydid models that were motionless or moved in a way to mimic either tremulating or walking. We found that prey movements do put prey at risk. Although M. microtis can detect motionless prey on leaves, they preferred moving prey. Our study shows that movement can put searching or signalling prey in danger, potentially explaining why silent female katydids are frequently consumed by gleaning bats.
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- Inga Geipel
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843-03092, Balboa, Panama
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843-03092, Balboa, Panama.,Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, 78 College Street, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843-03092, Balboa, Panama.,Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, 78 College Street, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843-03092, Balboa, Panama.,Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843-03092, Balboa, Panama
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843-03092, Balboa, Panama.,Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, 78 College Street, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
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Castellanos NL, Bueno AF, Haddi K, Silveira EC, Rodrigues HS, Hirose E, Smagghe G, Oliveira EE. The Fitness and Economic Benefits of Rearing the Parasitoid Telenomus podisi Under Fluctuating Temperature Regime. NEOTROPICAL ENTOMOLOGY 2019; 48:934-948. [PMID: 31728908 DOI: 10.1007/s13744-019-00717-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2019] [Accepted: 09/03/2019] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Successful biological control requires detailed knowledge about the mass rearing conditions of the control agents in order to ensure higher quality of field-released insects. Thus, we investigated whether rearing fluctuating thermal condition would affect the fitness and costs of the parasitoid wasp Telenomus podisi Ashmead (a biocontrol agent used for controlling the Neotropical brown stink bug Euschistus heros (Fabricius)) when compared with parasitoid reared at constant temperature condition, which is commonly used in insect facilities. Parasitoids were reared under either constant (continuous exposure at 25 ± 2°C) or fluctuating temperature conditions (i.e., 30 ± 2°C during day and 20 ± 2°C at night) during four consecutive generations. Our results indicated that tested fluctuating temperature is more suitable for rearing of T. podisi as such temperature condition not only resulted in fitness benefits (e.g., shorter developmental time, longer female longevity, higher fecundity/fertility) but also reduced (approximately 23.5%) the estimated costs for producing the parasitoids. Furthermore, rearing T. podisi under fluctuating temperatures improved tolerance to low constant temperatures (i.e., 20°C) without changing the tolerance to constant high temperatures (30°C) in the fourth generation. Surprisingly, even parasitoids that developed under fluctuating thermal conditions performed better than those reared at constant temperature of 25°C. Collectively, our findings suggest that T. podisi reared under fluctuating thermal condition can tolerate better fluctuating temperatures that normally occur both during long periods of transport and in agricultural ecosystems, which will increase the quality and productivity of mass-reared T. podisi for inundative releases.
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- N L Castellanos
- Depto de Entomologia, Univ Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brasil
- Dept of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent Univ, Ghent, Belgium
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- Depto de Entomologia, Univ Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brasil
- Depto de Entomologia, Univ Federal de Lavras, Lavras, MG, Brazil
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- Depto de Entomologia, Univ Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brasil
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- Depto de Entomologia, Univ Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brasil
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- EMBRAPA Soja, Londrina, PR, Brasil
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- Dept of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent Univ, Ghent, Belgium
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- Depto de Entomologia, Univ Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brasil.
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Rebolleda-Gómez M, Wood CW. Unclear Intentions: Eavesdropping in Microbial and Plant Systems. Front Ecol Evol 2019. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Bertoldi V, Rondoni G, Brodeur J, Conti E. An Egg Parasitoid Efficiently Exploits Cues From a Coevolved Host But Not Those From a Novel Host. Front Physiol 2019; 10:746. [PMID: 31333475 PMCID: PMC6621923 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2018] [Accepted: 05/31/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Egg parasitoids have evolved adaptations to exploit host-associated cues, especially oviposition-induced plant volatiles and odors of gravid females, when foraging for hosts. The entire host selection process is critical for successful parasitism and relevant in defining host specificity of parasitoids. We hypothesized that naïve egg parasitoid females reared on their coevolved host are able to exploit cues related to the coevolved host but not those from a novel host. We used the egg parasitoid Trissolcus japonicus, its coevolved host Halyomorpha halys, and the non-coevolved host Podisus maculiventris to evaluate this hypothesis. H. halys, a polyphagous pest native from Eastern Asia, has invaded North America and Europe, resulting in serious damage to crops. T. japonicus is the most effective egg parasitoid of H. halys in its native area and thus considered a major candidate for biological control. This parasitoid was detected in North America and Europe as a result of accidental introductions. Laboratory host range of T. japonicus includes P. maculiventris, an American predatory stink bug used as a biological control agent of several pests. Using T. japonicus reared on its natural host H. halys, we tested in a Y-tube olfactometer the responses of naïve parasitoid females to volatiles from tomato plants with a deposited egg mass and feeding punctures of either H. halys or P. maculiventris. Additionally, using two different olfactometer set-ups, we tested T. japonicus responses to volatiles emitted by eggs and mature males and females of H. halys or P. maculiventris. Tomato plants subjected to oviposition and feeding by H. halys were preferred by the wasp compared to clean plants, suggesting a possible activation of an indirect defense mechanism. Furthermore, T. japonicus females were attracted by cues from gravid females and mature males of H. halys but not from eggs. By contrast, naïve parasitoid females never responded to cues associated with P. maculiventris, although this non-target host is suitable for complete parasitoid development. Such lack of responses might reduce the probability of T. japonicus locating and parasitizing P. maculiventris under field conditions. Our experimental approach properly simulates the parasitoid host-location process and could be combined with the required host specificity tests for risk assessment in biological control programs.
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- Valeria Bertoldi
- Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari ed Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy.,Département de Sciences Biologiques, Institut de Recherche en Biologie Végétale, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari ed Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy.,Département de Sciences Biologiques, Institut de Recherche en Biologie Végétale, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Département de Sciences Biologiques, Institut de Recherche en Biologie Végétale, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari ed Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy.,Département de Sciences Biologiques, Institut de Recherche en Biologie Végétale, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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Hamel JA, Cocroft RB. Maternal Vibrational Signals Reduce the Risk of Attracting Eavesdropping Predators. Front Ecol Evol 2019. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Virant-Doberlet M, Kuhelj A, Polajnar J, Šturm R. Predator-Prey Interactions and Eavesdropping in Vibrational Communication Networks. Front Ecol Evol 2019. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Salerno G, Frati F, Conti E, Peri E, Colazza S, Cusumano A. Mating Status of an Herbivorous Stink Bug Female Affects the Emission of Oviposition-Induced Plant Volatiles Exploited by an Egg Parasitoid. Front Physiol 2019; 10:398. [PMID: 31031636 PMCID: PMC6473057 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2018] [Accepted: 03/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Insect parasitoids are under selection pressure to optimize their host location strategy in order to maximize fitness. In parasitoid species that develop on host eggs, one of these strategies consists in the exploitation of oviposition-induced plant volatiles (OIPVs), specific blends of volatile organic compounds released by plants in response to egg deposition by herbivorous insects. Plants can recognize insect oviposition via elicitors that trigger OIPVs, but very few elicitors have been characterized so far. In particular, the source and the nature of the elicitor responsible of egg parasitoid recruitment in the case of plants induced with oviposition by stink bugs are still unknown. In this paper, we conducted behavioral and molecular investigations to localize the source of the elicitor that attracts egg parasitoids and elucidate the role of host mating in elicitation of plant responses. We used as organism study model a tritrophic system consisting of the egg parasitoid Trissolcus basalis, the stink bug host Nezara viridula and the plant Vicia faba. We found that egg parasitoid attraction to plant volatiles is triggered by extracts coming from the dilated portion of the stink bug spermathecal complex. However, attraction only occurs if extracts are obtained from mated females but not from virgin ones. Egg parasitoid attraction was not observed when extracts coming from the accessory glands (mesadene and ectadene) of male hosts were applied, either alone or in combination to plants. SDS-PAGE electrophoresis correlated with olfactometer observations as the protein profile of the dilated portion of the spermathecal complex was affected by the stink bug mating status suggesting post-copulatory physiological changes in this reproductive structure. This study contributed to better understanding the host location process by egg parasitoids and laid the basis for the chemical characterization of the elicitor responsible for OIPV emission.
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- Gianandrea Salerno
- Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari ed Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari ed Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari ed Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Forestali, Universitá degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Forestali, Universitá degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- UMR 1333 DGIMI, INRA, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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Wu X, Pang Y, Luo B, Wang M, Feng J. Function of Distress Calls in Least Horseshoe Bats: A Field Study Using Playback Experiments. ACTA CHIROPTEROLOGICA 2019. [DOI: 10.3161/15081109acc2018.20.2.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Xiu Wu
- Key Laboratory of Southwest China Wildlife Resources Conservation of Ministry of Education, China West Normal University, Nanchong 637009, China
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- Key Laboratory of Southwest China Wildlife Resources Conservation of Ministry of Education, China West Normal University, Nanchong 637009, China
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- Key Laboratory of Southwest China Wildlife Resources Conservation of Ministry of Education, China West Normal University, Nanchong 637009, China
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- Key Laboratory of Southwest China Wildlife Resources Conservation of Ministry of Education, China West Normal University, Nanchong 637009, China
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- Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Resource Conservation and Utilization, Northeast Normal University, 255 Jingyue Street, Changchun 130117, China
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Queiroz AP, Taguti EA, Bueno AF, Grande MLM, Costa CO. Host Preferences of Telenomus podisi (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae): Parasitism on Eggs of Dichelops melacanthus, Euschistus heros, and Podisus nigrispinus (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). NEOTROPICAL ENTOMOLOGY 2018; 47:543-552. [PMID: 29159796 DOI: 10.1007/s13744-017-0564-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2017] [Accepted: 10/24/2017] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Successful biological control requires detailed knowledge about host preferences of the released parasitoid, because the presence of alternative hosts may affect the control of the target pest. The objective of this work was therefore to evaluate host preferences of Telenomus podisi Ashmead among the eggs of three stink bug species: Dichelops melacanthus Dallas, Euschistus heros Fabricius, and Podisus nigrispinus Dallas (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Three independent experiments were carried out to study host preferences among the following: (1) E. heros, D. melacanthus dallas, and P. nigrispinus (bioassay 1); (2) E. heros and D. melacanthus (bioassay 2); and (3) D. melacanthus and P. nigrispinus (bioassay 3). A single bioassay (bioassay 4) was carried out to evaluate the egg size of E. heros, D. melacanthus, and P. nigrispinus. Two more bioassays were carried out: bioassay 5 to study the biological characteristics of T. podisi reared on E. heros, D. melacanthus, and P. nigrispinus eggs, and bioassay 6 to study the morphological characters of T. podisi reared on those different host eggs. Overall, T. podisi consistently preferred eggs of D. melacanthus to those of the other studied hosts, due to probably their better nutritional value; hypothesis that is supported by the fast T. podisi development and bigger parasitoids when reared on D. melacanthus and P. nigrispinus eggs. This allows suggesting that neither pre-imaginal conditioning nor associative learning nor α-conditioning are relevant to T. podisi parasitism. Thus, E. heros eggs could be successfully used for mass rearing of this parasitoid for successive generations since it would not affect its parasitism on other species of the Pentatomidae family in the field.
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- A P Queiroz
- Univ Federal do Paraná, Caixa Postal 19020, Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil, 81531-980.
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- Univ Federal do Paraná, Caixa Postal 19020, Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil, 81531-980
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- Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária - Embrapa Soja, Londrina, Paraná, Brasil
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- Univ Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Paraná, Brasil
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- Centro Universitário Filadélfia, Londrina, Paraná, Brasil
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Brezolin AN, Martinazzo J, Muenchen DK, de Cezaro AM, Rigo AA, Steffens C, Steffens J, Blassioli-Moraes MC, Borges M. Tools for detecting insect semiochemicals: a review. Anal Bioanal Chem 2018; 410:4091-4108. [DOI: 10.1007/s00216-018-1118-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2018] [Revised: 04/24/2018] [Accepted: 04/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Michereff MFF, Borges M, Aquino MFS, Laumann RA, Mendes Gomes ACM, Blassioli-Moraes MC. The influence of volatile semiochemicals from stink bug eggs and oviposition-damaged plants on the foraging behaviour of the egg parasitoid Telenomus podisi. BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH 2016; 106:663-71. [PMID: 27296010 DOI: 10.1017/s0007485316000419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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During host selection, physical and chemical stimuli provide important cues that modify search behaviours of natural enemies. We evaluated the influence of volatiles released by eggs and egg extracts of the stink bug Euschistus heros and by soybean plants treated with the eggs and egg extracts on Telenomus podisi foraging behaviour. Responses to volatiles were evaluated in Y-tube olfactometers after exposure to (1) one egg cluster for 24 h; (2) plants with eggs laid by the stink bug, tested at 24, 48, and 72 h after treatment; (3) plants with eggs laid artificially, tested at 24, 48, and 72 h after treatment; and (4) plants treated with acetone or hexane extracts of eggs. Telenomus podisi was attracted to volatiles emitted by one egg cluster and to acetone extracts of one egg cluster, but not to air or acetone controls. There were no responses to odours of plants treated with eggs or egg extracts. Analysis of acetone extracts of egg clusters by gas chromatography revealed the major components were saturated and unsaturated fatty acids, including hexadecanoic acid, linoleic acid, and (Z)-9-octadecenoic acid. Our results suggest that one egg cluster and the acetone extract of one egg cluster contain volatile compounds that can modify T. podisi foraging behaviour, and that the amounts of these compounds, probably together with some minor compounds, are important for host recognition by T. podisi. Also, the oviposition damage or egg extracts on the plant did not elicit indirect defences that attracted Telenomus podisi.
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- M F F Michereff
- Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia (Cenargen),Brasília,Brazil
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- Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia (Cenargen),Brasília,Brazil
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- Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia (Cenargen),Brasília,Brazil
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- Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia (Cenargen),Brasília,Brazil
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Meuche I, Keller A, Ahmad Sah HH, Ahmad N, Grafe TU. Silent listeners: can preferences of eavesdropping midges predict their hosts’ parasitism risk? Behav Ecol 2016. [DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arw002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Shestakov LS. A comparative analysis of vibrational signals in 16 sympatric bug species (Pentatomidae, Heteroptera). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015. [DOI: 10.1134/s0013873815030045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Polajnar J, Eriksson A, Lucchi A, Anfora G, Virant-Doberlet M, Mazzoni V. Manipulating behaviour with substrate-borne vibrations--potential for insect pest control. PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 2015; 71:15-23. [PMID: 24962656 DOI: 10.1002/ps.3848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2014] [Revised: 06/09/2014] [Accepted: 06/18/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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This review presents an overview of the potential use of substrate-borne vibrations for the purpose of achieving insect pest control in the context of integrated pest management. Although the importance of mechanical vibrations in the life of insects has been fairly well established, the effect of substrate-borne vibrations has historically been understudied, in contrast to sound sensu stricto. Consequently, the idea of using substrate-borne vibrations for pest control is still in its infancy. This review therefore focuses on the theoretical background, using it to highlight potential applications in a field environment, and lists the few preliminary studies that have been or are being performed. Conceptual similarities to the use of sound, as well as limitations inherent in this approach, are also noted.
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- Jernej Polajnar
- Department of Sustainable Agro-Ecosystems and Bioresources, Fondazione Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Italy
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Do Green Treefrogs (Hyla cinerea) Eavesdrop on Prey Calls? J HERPETOL 2014. [DOI: 10.1670/13-032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Barrantes ME, Castelo MK. Host specificity in the host-seeking larva of the dipteran parasitoid Mallophora ruficauda and the influence of age on parasitism decisions. BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH 2014; 104:295-306. [PMID: 24548616 DOI: 10.1017/s0007485314000029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Larvae of the robber fly Mallophora ruficauda are ectoparasitoids of white grubs and adults are an important apiculture pest in Argentina. Females oviposit on tall grasses and the second instar larva actively searches and locates hosts. There are nine potential hosts in the distribution area of this parasitoid and Cyclocephala signaticollis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) is the most parasitized in the field. However, M. ruficauda has a certain degree of behavioural flexibility towards different host species, and not being a strict specialist. The conditions under which the parasitoid orientates and accepts different hosts' species are unknown. We studied the host specificity of M. ruficauda towards three species of Cyclocephala genus and we determined whether this specificity depends on larval age. We also evaluated whether larva orientation towards Cyclocephala species changes with chemical cue concentration. We assessed host specificity measuring the orientation and acceptance behaviours towards kairomones extracts and live individuals of Cyclocephala species using M. ruficauda larvae of low and high life expectancy (i.e., young and aged second instar larvae). We observed that young larvae orientated only towards C. signaticollis chemical stimulus, whereas aged larvae orientated also towards C. modesta, and the same was observed with increasing stimuli's concentration. Both young and aged M. ruficauda larvae orientate towards live C. signaticollis and C. putrida species and rejected C. modesta. Also, we found that larvae accepted all Cyclocephala hosts. In conclusion, our results indicate that specificity in the laboratory, observed through host orientation and host acceptance behaviours, depends not only on the availability of host species, but also on the nature of the host's stimuli combined with parasitoid age.
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- M E Barrantes
- Grupo de Investigación en Ecofisiología de Parasitoides (GIEP), Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Instituto IEGEBA (CONICET-UBA), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Intendente Güirales 2160, Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellón II (C1428EHA), Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Grupo de Investigación en Ecofisiología de Parasitoides (GIEP), Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Instituto IEGEBA (CONICET-UBA), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Intendente Güirales 2160, Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellón II (C1428EHA), Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Vibrational Communication Networks: Eavesdropping and Biotic Noise. ANIMAL SIGNALS AND COMMUNICATION 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-43607-3_7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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Schmidt KA, Belinsky KL. Voices in the dark: predation risk by owls influences dusk singing in a diurnal passerine. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-013-1593-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Martínez G, Soler R, Dicke M. Behavioral Ecology of Oviposition-Site Selection in Herbivorous True Bugs. ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF BEHAVIOR 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-407186-5.00004-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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Hughes NK, Kelley JL, Banks PB. Dangerous liaisons: the predation risks of receiving social signals. Ecol Lett 2012; 15:1326-1339. [PMID: 22925009 DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01856.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2012] [Revised: 04/19/2012] [Accepted: 07/23/2012] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Nelika K. Hughes
- Evolution and Ecology Research Centre; School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences; University of New South Wales; Sydney New South Wales 2052 Australia
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- Evolution and Ecology Research Centre; School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences; University of New South Wales; Sydney New South Wales 2052 Australia
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- Evolution and Ecology Research Centre; School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences; University of New South Wales; Sydney New South Wales 2052 Australia
- School of Biological Sciences; University of Sydney; Sydney New South Wales 2006 Australia
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Eriksson A, Anfora G, Lucchi A, Lanzo F, Virant-Doberlet M, Mazzoni V. Exploitation of insect vibrational signals reveals a new method of pest management. PLoS One 2012; 7:e32954. [PMID: 22457726 PMCID: PMC3310055 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2011] [Accepted: 02/02/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Food production is considered to be the main source of human impact on the environment and the concerns about detrimental effects of pesticides on biodiversity and human health are likely to lead to an increasingly restricted use of chemicals in agriculture. Since the first successful field trial, pheromone based mating disruption enabled sustainable insect control, which resulted in reduced levels of pesticide use. Organic farming is one of the fastest growing segments of agriculture and with the continuously growing public concern about use of pesticides, the main remaining challenge in increasing the safety of the global food production is to identify appropriate alternative mating disruption approaches for the numerous insect pests that do not rely on chemical communication. In the present study, we show for the first time that effective mating disruption based on substrate-borne vibrational signals can be achieved in the field. When disruptive vibrational signals were applied to grapevine plants through a supporting wire, mating frequency of the leafhopper pest Scaphoideus titanus dropped to 9 % in semi-field conditions and to 4 % in a mature vineyard. The underlying mechanism of this environmentally friendly pest-control tactic is a masking of the vibrational signals used in mate recognition and location. Because vibrational communication is widespread in insects, mating disruption using substrate vibrations can transform many open field and greenhouse based farming systems.
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- Anna Eriksson
- The Istituto Agrario di San Michele all’Adige Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Italy
- Department C.D.S.L., Section of Agricultural Entomology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- The Istituto Agrario di San Michele all’Adige Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Italy
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- Department C.D.S.L., Section of Agricultural Entomology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department C.D.S.L., Section of Agricultural Entomology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- The Istituto Agrario di San Michele all’Adige Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Italy
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Silent singers are not safe: selective response of a parasitoid to substrate-borne vibratory signals of stink bugs. Anim Behav 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.08.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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VIRANT-DOBERLET META, KING RANDREW, POLAJNAR JERNEJ, SYMONDSON WILLIAMOC. Molecular diagnostics reveal spiders that exploit prey vibrational signals used in sexual communication. Mol Ecol 2011; 20:2204-16. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2011.05038.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Sullivan-Beckers L, Cocroft RB. THE IMPORTANCE OF FEMALE CHOICE, MALE-MALE COMPETITION, AND SIGNAL TRANSMISSION AS CAUSES OF SELECTION ON MALE MATING SIGNALS. Evolution 2010; 64:3158-71. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01073.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The signaller's dilemma: a cost-benefit analysis of public and private communication. PLoS One 2010; 5:e13325. [PMID: 20967210 PMCID: PMC2954168 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2010] [Accepted: 09/18/2010] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Background Understanding the diversity of animal signals requires knowledge of factors which may influence the different stages of communication, from the production of a signal by the sender up to the detection, identification and final decision-making in the receiver. Yet, many studies on signalling systems focus exclusively on the sender, and often ignore the receiver side and the ecological conditions under which signals evolve. Methodology/Principal Findings We study a neotropical katydid which uses airborne sound for long distance communication, but also an alternative form of private signalling through substrate vibration. We quantified the strength of predation by bats which eavesdrop on the airborne sound signal, by analysing insect remains at roosts of a bat family. Males do not arbitrarily use one or the other channel for communication, but spend more time with private signalling under full moon conditions, when the nocturnal rainforest favours predation by visually hunting predators. Measurements of metabolic CO2-production rate indicate that the energy necessary for signalling increases 3-fold in full moon nights when private signalling is favoured. The background noise level for the airborne sound channel can amount to 70 dB SPL, whereas it is low in the vibration channel in the low frequency range of the vibration signal. The active space of the airborne sound signal varies between 22 and 35 meters, contrasting with about 4 meters with the vibration signal transmitted on the insect's favourite roost plant. Signal perception was studied using neurophysiological methods under outdoor conditions, which is more reliable for the private mode of communication. Conclusions/Significance Our results demonstrate the complex effects of ecological conditions, such as predation, nocturnal ambient light levels, and masking noise levels on the performance of receivers in detecting mating signals, and that the net advantage or disadvantage of a mode of communication strongly depends on these conditions.
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Pareja M, Mohib A, Birkett MA, Dufour S, Glinwood RT. Multivariate statistics coupled to generalized linear models reveal complex use of chemical cues by a parasitoid. Anim Behav 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.12.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Laumann RA, Aquino MFS, Moraes MCB, Pareja M, Borges M. Response of the Egg Parasitoids Trissolcus basalis and Telenomus podisi to Compounds from Defensive Secretions of Stink Bugs. J Chem Ecol 2009; 35:8-19. [DOI: 10.1007/s10886-008-9578-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2008] [Revised: 12/01/2008] [Accepted: 12/09/2008] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Cokl A. Stink bug interaction with host plants during communication. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2008; 54:1113-1124. [PMID: 18634798 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2008.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2008] [Revised: 06/13/2008] [Accepted: 06/16/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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In solitary plant-dwelling stink bug species, success depends crucially on efficient mate location and recognition, mediated by signals transmitted through the plant. All stink bugs investigated so far communicate with species and sex-specific narrow-band calling and courtship song signals produced by abdomen vibration. Calling songs of lower specificity are characterized by readily repeated units emitted with regular repetition rate from the same place on a plant, while courtship songs take place at shorter distances in the process of species and sex recognition, together with signals of other modalities. Signal spectra with about 100Hz fundamental frequency and harmonics below 1000Hz are tuned to the resonant properties of their green host plants. The majority of the identified leg vibratory receptor cells and the underlying ventral cord interneurons respond best in the frequency range below 500Hz. Green plants with low pass filtering properties transmit optimally signals with a dominant frequency around 100Hz and strongly attenuate vibrations above 600Hz. Accurate tuning of signal spectral properties with the plant's mechanical characteristics enables communication over several meter distances, with dispersive bending waves running through the plant's rod-like structures under standing wave conditions.
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- Andrej Cokl
- Department of Entomology, National Institute of Biology, Vecna pot 111, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Pareja M, Borges M, Laumann RA, Moraes MCB. Inter- and intraspecific variation in defensive compounds produced by five neotropical stink bug species (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2007; 53:639-48. [PMID: 17574569 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2007.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2007] [Revised: 04/09/2007] [Accepted: 04/10/2007] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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The differences in composition of defensive secretions between nymphs, adult males and adult females of Chinavia impicticornis (=Acrosternum impicticorne), Chinavia ubica (=Acrosternum ubicum), Euschistus heros, Dichelops melacanthus and Piezodorus guildinii (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae) were analysed within and between species using compositional log-ratio statistics and canonical variates analysis. Differences in composition between nymphs, males and females were found for all species, as well as when all species were pooled. In particular, tetradecanal appears to be a predominantly nymphal compound in D. melacanthus, E. heros and P. guildinii. In the two Chinavia species 4-oxo-(E)-2-hexenal and an unknown compound were more dominant in nymphs. The interspecific analysis revealed a good separation of defensive compounds according to their taxonomic relationship. Thus, the two Chinavia species grouped together, with (E)-2-decenal and (E)-2-hexenyl acetate, contributing to this separation. The other three species also differed from each other, with (E)-2-octenal associated to D. melacanthus, (E)-2-hexenal to P. guildinii and (E,E)-2,4-decadienal and tetradecanal to E. heros. The pooled analysis of stage ignoring species revealed tetradecanal and 4-oxo-(E)-2-decenal (tentative identification) strongly associated to nymphs. Thus, there are predictable differences between stages, and many of the differences are conserved between species. Consideration of these differences could prove to be important in understanding stink bug-natural enemy interactions, and in optimising biocontrol efforts.
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- Martín Pareja
- NTCB, EMBRAPA Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, Cx. Postal 02372, CEP 70849-970, Brasília, DF, Brazil
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