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Olfactory stimuli play an important role in the host searching of larval phytophagous insects. Previous studies indicate that larvae that have to find feeding sites after hatching are generally attracted to host volatiles. However, there are few studies on the olfactory responses of neonate larvae to host volatiles in cases when those larvae hatched on the host plant. In the present study, we determined the olfactory responses of neonate larvae of the specialist flea beetle, Altica koreana Ogloblin, to host and six non-host plants, using a static-air "arena." Larvae responded significantly to the host plant Potentilla chinensis Ser. and five of six non-host plants, compared to the control. Larvae did not prefer the host plant over the non-host plants (except Artemisia sp.) when offered a choice. Additionally, odours of a non-host plant, which were unattractive to neonate larvae, may have masked the attractive odour of the host plant. These results indicate that common volatiles can play a major role in attracting larvae of this specialist to plants, but attraction to such odours may not be the major mechanism of host choice. 相似文献
2.
Flavonoid wing pigments increase attractiveness of female common blue (Polyommatus icarus) butterflies to mate-searching males 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Common blue butterflies (Polyommatus icarus) sequester flavonoids from their larval host plants and allocate these UV-absorbing pigments to the wings. In field experiments
using dummies constructed from female butterflies, mate-searching males inspected flavonoid-rich dummies more intensively
than those with little or no flavonoids. Flavonoid content as signalled by UV-wing pattern may indicate ontogenetically determined
female quality or enhance detectability to males.
Received: 21 March 2000 / Accepted in revised form: 17 May 2000 相似文献
3.
An experimental group of homing pigeons (Columba livia f. domestica) learned to associate food with a magnetic anomaly produced by bar magnets that were fixed to the bowl in which they received
their daily food ration in their home loft; the control group lacked this experience. Both groups were trained to search for
two hidden food depots in a rectangular sand-filled arena without obvious visual cues; for the experimental birds, these depots
were also marked with three 1.15 × 106 μT bar magnets. During the tests, there were two food depots, one marked with the magnets, the other unmarked; their position
within the arena was changed from test to test. The experimental birds searched within 10 cm of the magnetically marked depot
in 49% of the test sessions, whereas the control birds searched there in only 11% of the sessions. Both groups searched near
the control depot in 11 and 13% of the sessions, respectively. The significant preference of the magnetically marked food
depot by the experimental birds shows that homing pigeons cannot only detect a magnetic anomaly but can also use it as a cue
for locating hidden food in an open arena. 相似文献
4.
When encountering an already parasitized host, a parasitoid’s optimal choices (superparasitism, host rejection, host feeding
or infanticide) seem to depend on the individual species’ life history, because the same choice may have different fitness
consequences. We demonstrate infanticide under laboratory conditions by a polysphinctine, Zatypota albicoxa, which is a solitary koinobiont ectoparasitoid of spiders. The female always removed any previously attached egg or larva
from the body of the host spider, Parasteatoda tepidariorum, with a rubbing behaviour. She rubbed her ovipositor back and forth toward the undersurface of the attached egg or of the
saddle under the attached larva to pry it off and laid an egg after removal. When removing a larva, the infanticidal female
engaged exclusively in unfastening the ‘saddle’ which fastens the larva to the body of the spider. All larvae were removed
with the ‘saddle’ attached to the ventral surface of the body. The female invested more time to remove the medium second and
the large penultimate instar larvae than to remove eggs and first instar larvae because of the labour involved in unfastening
the saddle. Oviposition with infanticide of the medium second and the penultimate instar larvae imposed more time upon the
female than that on an unparasitized host. Removal of any previous occupant in spite of the associated labour costs suggests
that infanticide will always be adaptive, no matter the time costs to Z. albicoxa, because so much is invested in attacking the host and because the parasitoid cannot detect whether the spider is already
parasitized until she achieves subjugation. 相似文献
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A host invasion strategy hitherto unknown from other insect parasitoids was observed in the dipteran Acrocera orbicula (Fabricius) (Diptera: Acroceridae) parasitizing the wolf spider, Pardosa prativaga (L. Koch) (Araneida: Lycosidae). In laboratory experiments the free-living first instar acrocerid larvae attached themselves
firmly to the spiders' integument by the mouthparts, cutting a tiny hole through the integument. No first instar larvae invaded
the host. A week later the parasitoids molted, and a small, flexible, and glabrous second instar larva left each of the attached
first instar exuviae and invaded the host through the attachment hole of the first instar larva. The novel host invasion pattern
observed may reduce physical damage to the host in the initial phase of endoparasitism, enhancing parasitoid survival.
Received: 14 April 1999 / Accepted in revised form: 2 July 1999 相似文献
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Platycampus larvae are highly cryptic leaf feeders characterised by a dorso-ventrally flattened body, the dorsal integument resembling
a shield. Dorsal and ventral cuticles from Platycampus luridiventris were compared by histology and gel electrophoresis. By Azan-staining, a red and a blue layer were distinguished in the dorsal
cuticle, while the ventral cuticle showed one, almost uniform blue layer, as in both cuticles of control species. The two
cuticles from P. luridiventris had similar amounts and sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis profiles of soluble proteins, but not
insoluble proteins. One insoluble protein (MW ≈ 41 kDa) was visible as a large band in the ventral cuticle only. It is likely
that this protein renders the cuticle elastic, and that the dorsal, red layer is the exocuticle, mainly composed of insoluble
proteins. We discuss eco-physiological implications of the exocuticle in insects. Further, data from the literature indicate
that the defence strategy in P. luridiventris larvae relies on being visually cryptic towards avian predators and tactically cryptic towards arthropod predators and parasitoids.
Crypsis in both senses is favoured by the shield effect, itself based on an abnormally thick dorsal exocuticle. Although the
larvae are external feeders, they may be considered as hidden from an ecological perspective. 相似文献
7.
Torpor is an energy-saving mechanism that allows endotherms to overcome energetic challenges. Torpor should be avoided during
reproduction because of potential incompatibility with offspring growth. To test if torpor can be used during gestation and
lactation to compensate for food shortage, we exposed reproductive female grey mouse lemurs (Microcebus murinus), a heterothermic primate, to different levels of food availability. Torpor use was characterised by daily skin temperature
profiles, and its energetic outcome was assessed from changes in body mass. Food shortage triggered torpor during the end
of the gestation period (n = 1), ranging from shallow in response to 40% food restriction to deep daily torpor in response to 80% restriction. During
the early period of lactation, females fed ad libitum (n = 2) or exposed to a 40% restriction (n = 4) remained normothermic; but 80% food restricted females (n = 5) gave priority to energy saving, increasing the frequency and depth of torpor bouts. The use of torpor was insufficient
to compensate for 80% energetic shortage during lactation resulting in loss of mass from the mother and delayed growth in
the pups. This study provides the first evidence that a heterothermic primate can use torpor to compensate for food shortages
even during reproduction. This physiological flexibility likely evolved as a response to climate-driven fluctuations in food
availability in Madagascar. 相似文献
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The bathymetric distribution of marine benthic invertebrates is likely governed by a combination of ecological and physiological
factors. The present study investigates oxygen consumption and heartbeat rate in response to attempted feeding at 1, 100 and
150 atm in the shallow-water spider crab, Maja brachydactyla, from temperate European waters. No significant difference was evident between the resting heartbeat rate of specimens at
1 or 100 atm, which were 56 and 65 bpm, respectively (Mann–Whitney, U = 5382.0; n = 95, 98; p = 0.079). However, at 150 atm the resting heartbeat rate was significantly higher than that observed for 100 atm at 108 bpm
(Mann–Whitney, U = 149.0; n = 45, 98; p < 0.001). At 150 atm, feeding was never observed and coupled with the elevated resting heartbeat rate; it is suggested by
150 atm continued survival is unfeasible. At 1 and 100 atm, feeding instigated a distinct increase in heartbeat rate, which
remained elevated for over 30 h. This increase peaked within 1 h at 1 atm. At 100 atm, this required 4 h and postprandial
oxygen consumption was significantly higher than at 1 atm (Kruskal–Wallis, H = 85.036; df = 2; p < 0.001). Elevated hydrostatic pressure is hypothesized to extend the duration and the total metabolic energy devoted to
specific dynamic action. The metabolic requirements of feeding under hyperbaric conditions may even reach such a critical
demand that feeding is entirely inhibited. 相似文献
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We have found that giant hornets (Vespa mandarinia japonica) are killed in less than 10 min when they are trapped in a bee ball created by the Japanese honeybees Apis cerana japonica, but their death cannot be solely accounted for by the elevated temperature in the bee ball. In controlled experiments, hornets
can survive for 10 min at the temperature up to 47°C, whereas the temperature inside the bee balls does not rise higher than
45.9°C. We have found here that the CO2 concentration inside the bee ball also reaches a maximum (3.6 ± 0.2%) in the initial 0–5 min phase after bee ball formation.
The lethal temperature of the hornet (45–46°C) under conditions of CO2 concentration (3.7 ± 0.44%) produced using human expiratory air is almost the same as that in the bee ball. The lethal temperature
of the honeybee is 50–51°C under the same air conditions. We concluded that CO2 produced inside the bee ball by honeybees is a major factor together with the temperature involved in defense against giant
hornets. 相似文献
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Marcelo Perantoni Darci M. S. Esquivel Eliane Wajnberg Daniel Acosta-Avalos Geraldo Cernicchiaro Henrique Lins de Barros 《Die Naturwissenschaften》2009,96(6):685-690
Magnetotactic microorganisms use the interaction of internal biomineralized nanoparticles with the geomagnetic field to orientate.
The movement of the magnetotactic multicellular prokaryote Candidatus Magnetoglobus multicellularis under an applied magnetic field was observed. A method using digital image processing techniques
was used to track the organism trajectory to simultaneously obtain its body radius, velocity, U-turn diameter, and the reorientation
time. The magnetic moment was calculated using a self-consistent method. The distribution of magnetic moments and radii present
two well-characterized peaks at (9 ± 2) × 10−15 and (20 ± 3) × 10−15 A m2 and (3.6 ± 0.1) and (4.3 ± 0.1) μm, respectively. For the first time, simultaneous determination of the distribution of the
organism radii and magnetic moment was obtained from the U-turn method by a new digital imaging processing. The bimodal distributions
support an organism reproduction process model based on electron microscopy observations. These results corroborate the prokaryote
multicellular hypothesis for Candidatus M. multicellularis. 相似文献
11.
This paper reports study of day-to-day instability in the locomotor activity rhythm of the nocturnal field mouse Mus booduga. The free-running period (τ) of this rhythm was estimated in constant darkness in n=347 adult male mice. The "onset" and "offset" of locomotor activity rhythm were used as phase markers of the circadian clock.
The precision of the onset of locomotor activity was observed to be a non-linear function of τ, with maximal precision at
τ close to 24 h. The precision of the offset of locomotor activity was found to increase with increasing τ. These results
suggest that the homeostasis of τ is tighter when τ is close to 24 h.
Received: 5 May 1998 / Accepted: 11 February 1999 相似文献
12.
Previous studies have explored two-dimensional path integration in rodents by recording responses to passive rotation on
a horizontal plane. This study adds the element of passive rotation in a vertical plane, necessitating the mouse to integrate
positional information from three dimensions. Mice were trained to climb a wire mesh joining two horizontal planes. The whole
arena was rotated 90° while the mouse was vertically oriented as it moved between planes. Rotation was conducted both clockwise
and counter-clockwise, controls being provided by rotation of the arena while the mouse was in its nest-box. All 16 mice tested
altered their direction of travel subsequent to rotation in the vertical plane, compensating with a change in their path on
the following horizontal plane.
Received: 20 April 2000 / Accepted in revised form: 5 September 2000 相似文献
13.
Humin, the most recalcitrant and abundant organic fraction of soils and of sediments, is a significant contributor to the
stable carbon pool in soils and is important for the global carbon budget. It has significant resistance to transformations
by microorganisms. Based on the classical operational definition, humin can include any humic-type substance that is not soluble
in water at any pH. We demonstrate in this study how sequential exhaustive extractions with 0.1 M sodium hydroxide (NaOH) + 6 M
urea, followed by dimethylsulphoxide (DMSO) + 6% (v/v) sulphuric acid (H2SO4) solvent systems, can extract 70–80% of the residual materials remaining after prior exhaustive extractions in neutral and
aqueous basic media. Solid-state 13C NMR spectra have shown that the components isolated in the base + urea system were compositionally similar to the humic
and fulvic acid fractions isolated at pH 12.6 in the aqueous media. The NMR spectra indicated that the major components isolated
in the DMSO + H2SO4 medium had aliphatic hydrocarbon associated with carboxyl functionalities and with lesser amounts of carbohydrate and peptide
and minor amounts of lignin-derived components. The major components will have significant contributions from long-chain fatty
acids, waxes, to cuticular materials. The isolates in the DMSO + H2SO4 medium were compositionally similar to the organic components that resisted solvation and remained associated with the soil
clays. It is concluded that the base + urea system released humic and fulvic acids held by hydrogen bonding or by entrapment
within the humin matrix. The recalcitrant humin materials extracted in DMSO + H2SO4 are largely biological molecules (from plants and the soil microbial population) that are likely to be protected from degradation
by their hydrophobic moieties and by sorption on the soil clays. Thus, the major components of humin do not satisfy the classical
definitions for humic substances which emphasise that these arise from microbial or chemical transformations in soils of the
components of organic debris. 相似文献
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Yury G. Shckorbatov 《Die Naturwissenschaften》1999,86(9):452-453
Cells of human buccal epithelium were irradiated in vitro by laser light at a wavelength of 632.8 nm and and an intensity
of 1 mW/cm2. The irradiation induced changes in the chromatin condensation state. The effect of irradiation depends on exposure time,
and cells of different donors reveal varying sensitivity to laser light. In some donors 1 s exposure induced decondensation,
but 2.5 min and 5 min condensation of chromatin in all donors.
Received: 10 June 1998 / Accepted in revised form: 7 May 1999 相似文献
15.
The effect of different ambient sulphide concentrations on the internal pH regime of Hediste (Nereis) diversicolor was studied under in vivo conditions using liquid membrane pH microelectrodes, a method which is new to marine sciences.
As a case study, the hypothesis was tested whether organisms exposed to ambient sulphidic conditions are able to lower their
internal pH which, in effect, would reduce sulphide influx into the animals and thus could represent an effective detoxification
mechanism. It was shown that a significant lowering of the internal pH occurred within only 20 min after adding sulphide.
This pH lowering appeared to be dependent on the external sulphide concentration of the ambient medium and showed a saturation
beyond a threshold level of about 130 μM. It is discussed whether this sulphide-induced pH drop is an active regulatory mechanism
and acts as an effective protection mechanism against sulphide during short-term exposures.
Received: 1 June 1999 / Accepted in revised form: 3 May 2000 相似文献
16.
Cerumen, or propolis, is a mixture of plant resins enriched with bee secretions. In Australia, stingless bees are important
pollinators that use cerumen for nest construction and possibly for colony’s health. While extensive research attests to the
therapeutic properties of honeybee (Apis mellifera) propolis, the biological and medicinal properties of Australian stingless bee cerumen are largely unknown. In this study,
the chemical and biological properties of polar extracts of cerumen from Tetragonula carbonaria in South East Queensland, Australia were investigated using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analyses and in
vitro 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX) cell-free assays. Extracts were tested against comparative (commercial tincture of A. mellifera propolis) and positive controls (Trolox and gallic acid). Distinct GC-MS fingerprints of a mixed diterpenic profile typical
of native bee cerumen were obtained with pimaric acid (6.31 ± 0.97%, w/w), isopimaric acid (12.23 ± 3.03%, w/w), and gallic
acid (5.79 ± 0.81%, w/w) tentatively identified as useful chemical markers. Characteristic flavonoids and prenylated phenolics
found in honeybee propolis were absent. Cerumen extracts from T. carbonaria inhibited activity of 5-LOX, an enzyme known to catalyse production of proinflammatory mediators (IC50 19.97 ± 2.67 μg/ml, mean ± SEM, n = 4). Extracts had similar potency to Trolox (IC50 12.78 ± 1.82 μg/ml), but were less potent than honeybee propolis (IC50 5.90 ± 0.62 μg/ml) or gallic acid (IC50 5.62 ± 0.35 μg/ml, P < 0.001). These findings warrant further investigation of the ecological and medicinal properties of this stingless bee cerumen,
which may herald a commercial potential for the Australian beekeeping industry. 相似文献
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During reproductive migration the electroreceptive African sharptooth catfish, Clarias gariepinus (Siluriformes), preys mainly on a weakly electric fish, the bulldog Marcusenius macrolepidotus (Mormyridae; Merron 1993). This is puzzling because the electric organ discharges of known Marcusenius species are pulses of a duration (<1 ms) too short for being detected by the catfishes' low-frequency electroreceptive system
(optimum sensitivity, 10–30 Hz; Peters and Bretschneider 1981). On the recent discovery that M. macrolepidotus males emit discharges lasting approximately ten times longer than those of females (Kramer 1997a) we determined behavioral
thresholds for discharges of both sexes, using synthetic playbacks of field-recorded discharges. C. gariepinus detected M. macrolepidotus male discharges down to a field gradient of 103 μVpeak-peak/cm and up to a distance of 1.5 m at natural field conditions. In contrast, thresholds for female discharges were not reached
with our setup, and we presume the bulldogs eaten by catfish are predominantly male.
Received: 7 October 1998 / Accepted in revised form: 29 December 1998 相似文献
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Laura Rodríguez-Loeches Alejandro Barro Martha Pérez Frank Coro 《Die Naturwissenschaften》2009,96(4):531-536
Both sexes of Phoenicoprocta capistrata have functional tymbals. The scanning electron microscopy revealed differences in the morphology of these organs in males
and females. Male tymbals have a well-developed striated band, constituted by 21 ± 2 regularly arranged striae whereas female
tymbals lack a striated band. This type of sexual dimorphism is rare in Arctiidae. The recording of the sound produced by
moths held by the wings revealed that while males produced trains of pulses organized in modulation cycles, females produced
clicks at low repetition rate following very irregular patterns. Statistically, there are differences between sexes in terms
of the duration of pulses, which were 355 ± 24 μs in the case of males and 289 ± 29 μs for females. The spectral characteristics
of the pulses also show sexual dimorphism. Male pulses are more tuned (Q
10 = 5.2 ± 0.5) than female pulses (Q
10 = 2.7 ± 0.5) and have a higher best frequency (42 ± 1 kHz vs. 29 ± 2 kHz). To our knowledge, this is the first report on
an arctiid moth showing sexual dimorphism in tymbal’s anatomy that leads to a best frequency dimorphism. Males produce sound
at mating attempts. The sounds recorded during mating are modulation cycles with the same spectral characteristics as those
recorded when males are held by the wings. The morphological and acoustic features of female tymbals could indicate a process
of degeneration and adaptation to conditions under which the emission of complex patterns is not necessary.
Frank Coro no longer works at Universidad de La Habana. 相似文献
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Although turbidite deposits are classically considered to be good reservoir rocks for oil and gas, there are no reports concerning
their source rock potential in the literature. The sediments from the Vallfogona Formation in the South-Eastern Pyrenees present
numerous organic matter-rich levels interbedded in sandstones and coarse turbidite deposits. Two types of organic matter deposits
were differentiated on the basis of organic geochemistry and petrography: type A and type B. Type A was deposited in a carbonate
marine environment under hypersaline conditions as indicated mainly by even/odd n-alkane predominance, pristane and phytane ratio (Pr/Ph) < 1, presence of gammacerane, and trisnorneohopane over trisnorhopane
ratio (Ts/Tm) > 1. Type B was deposited in a more mud-rich marine environment evidenced by the predominance of odd n-alkane, Pr/Ph ≥ 1, Ts/Tm < 1, the absence of gammacerane, similar concentrations of the C27 and C29 regular steranes, and the greater abundance of C27 diasteranes. Turbidite facies can be regarded as an environment where organic matter sedimentation is heterogeneous in type
and amount. This study suggests that turbidite deposits with interbedded organic matter-rich levels may act as a combined
source–reservoir system. 相似文献
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Subbaiah KC Raniprameela D Visweswari G Rajendra W Lokanatha V 《Die Naturwissenschaften》2011,98(12):1019-1026
The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of vitamin E on pro/anti-oxidant status in the liver, brain and
heart of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) infected chickens. Activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), glutathione
peroxidase (GPx), glutathione reductase (GR), glutathione-S-transferase (GST) and the levels of reduced glutathione and malonaldehyde were estimated in selected tissues of uninfected,
NDV-infected and NDV + vit. E-treated chickens. A significant increase in MDA levels in brain and liver (p < 0.05) was observed in NDV-infected chickens when compared to controls. The activities of SOD, CAT, GPx, GR, GST and levels
of GSH were significantly (p < 0.05) decreased in brain and liver of NDV-infected chickens over controls. On the other hand, a significant decreased MDA
levels and enhanced antioxidant enzyme activity levels were observed in NDV + vit. E-treated animals compared to NDV-infected
chickens. Histopathological studies revealed that liver of NDV infected chicken shows focal coagulation and infiltration of
hepatocytes, whereas neuronal necrosis and degeneration of Purkinje cells were observed in brain and moderate infiltration
of inflammatory cells was observed in heart. However such histological alterations were not observed in NDV + vit. E-treated
animals. The results of the present study, thus demonstrated that antioxidant defense mechanism is impaired after the induction
of NDV, suggesting its critical role in cellular injury in brain and liver. Further, the results also suggest that vitamin
E treatment will ameliorate the antioxidant status in the infected animals. The findings could be beneficial to understand
the role of oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of NDV and therapeutic interventions of antioxidants. 相似文献