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Isabelle Amat Emmanuel Desouhant Carlos Bernstein 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2009,63(4):563-572
When foraging partially depleted patches (i.e., a fraction of hosts are already parasitized), female parasitoids must decide:
1—whether to superparasitize, and 2—whether to stay in their current patch (thus missing the opportunity of finding a better
patch elsewhere). To make these decisions, parasitoids may rely on different cues, produced both by the environment and by
conspecifics. Animals thriving in different environments may differ in cues they use. In the solitary parasitoid Venturia canescens, thelytokous (asexual) and arrhenotokous (sexual) individuals are found in two contrasting environments. Thelytokous females,
from anthropogenic conditions, are known to cope with superparasitism in an adaptive way. On the other hand, little is known
about superparasitism by arrhenotokous females. We compared the host exploitation strategies of thelytokous and arrhenotokous
females in partially depleted patches. Hosts parasitized by thelytokous females were more frequently avoided than those parasitized
by arrhenotokous females, suggesting a stronger chemical marking of the former. Only thelytokous females used information
from conspecifics for patch-leaving decisions. The conformity of the differences in the behavior of thelytokous and arrhenotokous
females with the environmental conditions they experience in their habitat is discussed. 相似文献
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Diane Lefebvre Jacqueline Pierre Yannick Outreman Jean-Sébastien Pierre 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2007,61(11):1707-1715
The patch living rules of a pollinator, the bumblebee Bombus terrestris L., are studied here in the framework of motivational models widely used for parasitoids: The rewarding events found during
the foraging process are supposed to increase or decrease suddenly the tendency of the insect to stay in the current patch
and therefore to adjust the patch residence time to the patch profitability. The foraging behaviour of these pollinators was
observed in two environment types to determine their patch-leaving decisions. The rich environment was composed of male-fertile
flowers, offering pollen and nectar, and the poor one of male-sterile flowers, offering little nectar and no pollen. The experimental
design consisted of a patch system in which inflorescences were evenly arranged in two rows (1 m distance). Residence times
of foragers inside inflorescences and rows were analysed by a Cox proportional hazards model, taking into account recent and
past experience acquired during the foraging bout. Most of the results showed a decremental motivational mechanism, that is,
a reduction in the residence time on the inflorescence or in the row related to exploitation of flowers within inflorescences
and inflorescences within rows These results indicate that bumblebees tend to leave the patch using departure rules similar
to those found in parasitoids. The results also provide information on the memory, learning and evaluating capabilities of
bumblebees especially when rich and poor environments were compared. The patch-leaving mechanism suggested by this study is
consistent with the central place foraging theory. 相似文献
3.
Éric Wajnberg 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2006,60(5):589-611
As most parasitoids are time limited, they usually die before they have laid all their eggs. In such cases, optimal foraging theory predicts that female parasitoids will adopt behavioral reproductive strategies enabling them to maximize progeny production per unit of time. One key situation in which parasitoid females must optimize their time budget is related to the fact that most of their hosts are distributed in discrete patches in the environment. In this review, I first present the results of basic theoretical models predicting female wasp search duration on a patch of hosts. I then compile and analyze all studies investigating the effect of different factors on parasitoid patch time allocation and patch-leaving decision rules. Different patch-leaving mechanisms that were proposed to explain the results obtained are discussed, along with statistical methods that should be used to estimate them from experimental data. Finally, ideas for future research are presented. 相似文献
4.
Bernard D. Roitberg Karen Zimmermann Thomas S. Hoffmeister 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2010,64(4):627-637
Despite the multitude of work on patch time allocation and the huge number of studies on patch choice in the face of danger,
the patch leaving response of foragers perceiving cues of danger has received relatively little attention. We investigated
the response of parasitoid insects to cues of danger both theoretically and experimentally. Using stochastic dynamic theory,
we demonstrate that patch-leaving responses in response to the detection of danger should be seen as a dynamic decision that
depends upon reproductive options on the current host patch and on alternative patches that might be found after leaving the
current patch. Our theory predicts a sigmoidal response curve of parasitoids, where they should accept the danger and stay
on the patch when patch quality is high and should increasingly avoid the risk and emigrate from the patch with decreasing
patch quality and decreasing costs of traveling to an alternative host patch. Experiments with females of the drosophilid
parasitoid Asobara tabida that were exposed to a puff of formic acid (a danger cue) at different times through their patch exploitation confirmed the
theoretical predictions (i.e., a sigmoid response curve); however, the predicted curve was significantly steeper than observed.
We discuss the impact of dynamic patch-exit decisions of individual foragers on population and community dynamics. 相似文献
5.
Andra Thiel Gerard Driessen Thomas S. Hoffmeister 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2006,59(5):614-623
The parasitic wasp, Venturia canescens (Gravenhorst) (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), has two reproductive modes, namely, thelytoky or arrhenotoky, and occurs in habitats
with highly variable or relatively stable host abundances, respectively. Since information processing is costly, we expected
that information indicating resource availability would be mainly used by the thelytokous wasps and less so by the arrhenotokous
type. This idea was explored by two different approaches. In a study on patch-time allocation, we used females from ten populations
and measured patch-residence times of individuals that visited multiple patches at different encounter rates. In a more detailed
approach, thelytokous and arrhenotokous females from a single location were observed continuously while foraging, and all
behaviors were recorded. Wasps of both reproductive modes (i.e., both habitat types) used information for the assessment of
habitat quality. However, the way that the information was used differed between them. Whereas thelytokous females used foraging
information to maximize their efficiency at high patch-encounter rates, arrhenotokous females merely reduced the number of
offspring produced without changing patch times. The behavior of the arrhenotokous females should result in a spreading of
offspring across the habitat and, thus, reduced sib-mating. The foraging strategy of these wasps might therefore be an adaptation
to reduce costs associated with inbreeding. 相似文献
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Yannick Outreman Anne Le Ralec Eric Wajnberg Jean-Sébastien Pierre 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2005,58(2):208-217
The present study aimed to address how an insect parasitoid makes patch-departure decisions from various types of host patches and how previous patch experiences in the environment modify this decision-making process. Experiments were done with the parasitic wasp Aphidius rhopalosiphi attacking the grain aphid Sitobion avenae. In the experiments, wasps were observed in a laboratory environment containing several patches of various host densities, and behavioural records were analysed using a Coxs proportional hazards model. Consideration of the effect of the within-patch experience gave a classic pattern of patch-leaving decision rules in parasitoids: A. rhopalosiphi used local information on host quality (i.e. numbers of ovipositions or rejections) and availability (i.e. patch density) to determine departure decision. However, consideration of previous patch experiences provided evidence that these departure rules are fundamentally dynamic, responding to the physiological state of the animal and the information it has about its environment. Results showed that A. rhopalosiphi decreased its tendency to leave the visited patch after an oviposition. However, when a female has already laid several other eggs in the environment, such an incremental mechanism gradually switched to a decremental one. Hence, A. rhopalosiphi responded to egg-load depletion by leaving the visited patches sooner and by depositing a smaller number of eggs in those patches, which probably led to a decreased level of superparasitism. Results also indicated that previous experiences enabled wasps to estimate spatial host distribution and then to adjust their behavioural decisions accordingly. Thus, A. rhopalosiphi was shown to adjust its patch residence time according to the quality and the number of the patches previously visited. These proximate mechanistic rules adopted by A. rhopalosiphi females are discussed in the context of general predictions from optimality models.Communicated by D. Gwynne 相似文献
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Within the framework of optimal foraging theory, models assume that parasitoid insects are able to evaluate the quality of the patch in which they are currently searching for hosts and the travel time between patches. They can adjust their residence time in consequence. Simple and more realistic decision mechanisms that induce behavior compatible with the predictions of these models have been proposed for a number of species. Most of these decision mechanisms only take into account the presence of unparasitized hosts. Here, we studied the consequences for leaving patches containing different proportions of unparasitized and parasitized hosts. We support the hypothesis that parasitoids sample their environment and we propose a binomial sequential model, based on the type of host encountered (unparasitized or parasitized) instead of on the time spent in a patch, to explain the giving-up behavior of a parasitoid in a patch. A motivational incremental/decremental stochastic process is proposed to explain a possible mechanism of the apparent sampling scheme followed by the insect. The empirical data support the hypothesis of a sequential, decisional, binomial sampling scheme performed with a limited memory. This memory is, in fact, more an effect of habituation than the "true memory" of the parasitoid. The theoretical model was applied to real data obtained with an encyrtid parasitoid. These data were also compared to realizations of the incremental/decremental process. 相似文献
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Recently, a number of studies have found adaptive brood sex ratio (BSR) manipulation in birds. The reason for such manipulations is thought to be the different reproductive value of male and female nestlings. Several studies have found that parental quality and food supply can affect BSR, however results are sometimes inconsistent between species and populations. We investigated BSR patterns in a Hungarian population of Collared Flycatchers (Ficedula albicollis) and compared the results with those obtained in a previous study of the same species in Sweden. We found two significant differences. First, the male forehead patch size, a heritable, sexually selected trait, affected the brood sex ratio in the Swedish population, but not in our Hungarian study population. This difference might be a consequence of the different information content of the forehead patch size in the two populations. Second, a seasonal shift in BSR (more sons late in the season) was observed in the Hungarian, but not in the Swedish population.Communicated by J. Graves 相似文献
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Marianne J van Dijken Pam van Stratum Jacques J M van Alphen 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1992,30(2):77-82
Summary In parasitoid wasps, self-superparasitism (oviposition into a host already parasitized by the female herself) often contributes less to the reproductive success of the parasitoid than oviposition into a host previously parasitized by a conspecific (conspecific superparasitism). It could therefore often be profitable for parasitoids to avoid self-superparasitism. This requires a mechanism for either (1) the avoidance of previously searched areas and/or (2) the rejection of hosts containing eggs laid by the searching female. We investigated whether the solitary parasitoid Epidinocarsis lopezi is able to avoid self-superparasitism. We show that visits to previously searched patches were shorter than visits to unsearched patches and conclude that E. lopezi females leave a trail odour on patches they have searched. No differences were found between the time on patches previously searched by the wasp itself and on patches visited by conspecifics. However, E. lopezi superparasitizes fewer hosts previously parasitized by itself than hosts parasitized by a conspecific. Thus, they recognize an individual-specific mark in or on the host. We discuss how patch marking and host marking enable E. lopezi to avoid self-superparasitism. 相似文献
10.
In scallops, mobilization of reserves from the adductor muscle to support maintenance and reproductive activity may impinge
upon a major role of the adductor muscle, the movement of the valves during swimming and escape responses. The tropical scallop
Euvola ziczac (Linnaeus 1758) invests energy reserves to different degrees during its two periods of reproduction each year. We evaluated
the impact of reproductive investment on the escape responses (clapping capacity and recovery after exhaustive exercise) of
E. ziczac sampled at different reproductive stages (immature, mature, spawned) during the two reproductive periods in 1997. We compared
the escape response capacities with the levels of muscle energetic reserves (glycogen, proteins, and arginine phosphate) and
muscle metabolic capacities [activity of the glycolytic enzymes: glycogen phosphorylase (GP), pyruvate kinase (PK), phosphofructokinase
(PFK), octopine dehydrogenase (ODH), arginine kinase (AK), and the mitochondrial enzyme, citrate synthase (CS)]. Gonad size,
gamete volume fraction, and levels of gonadal protein and lipid were greater for mature scallops during the first than during
the second reproduction. Numbers of claps during escape responses (49–57) and levels of muscle arginine phosphate remained
similar throughout the different reproductive stages in both reproductive periods. In contrast, recovery was slowed during
gonadal maturation in both reproductive periods and during spawning in the first reproduction. Scallops generally took more
time to regain their initial clapping capacity during the first (25–40 min) than during the second reproduction (20–30 min).
Muscle glycogen decreased markedly during both gonadal maturation and spawning in both reproductions; whereas, muscle proteins
decreased only in the first reproduction. The levels of most enzymes decreased during gonadal maturation in both reproductions,
and also after spawning, particularly during the first reproduction. We concluded that gonadal maturation and spawning did
not decrease clapping capacity of E. ziczac, but decreased its capacity to recover from exhaustive exercise most likely due to decreased levels of energetic reserves
and a reduced metabolic capacity of the adductor muscle. Moreover, these effects were probably stronger during the first cycle
because of the greater reproductive investment coincident with decreased food availability.
Received: 28 April 2000 / Accepted: 21 September 2000 相似文献
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Adaptive superparasitism and patch time allocation in solitary parasitoids : the influence of pre-patch experience 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
Marcel E. Visser Jacques J. M. van Alphen Henk W. Nell 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1992,31(3):163-171
Summary Dynamic optimal diet models predict that host selection decisions and patch time allocation are influenced by the resource value of the habitat. We tested these predictions using the solitary' parasitoid Leptopilina heterotoma. Assuming that travel times between patches, the quality of previously visited patches and parasitoid density affect the parasitoids' estimation of the resource value of the habitat, different treatments were given before introducing parasitoids singly to a patch containing 5 unparasitized and 15 parasitized hosts. The decision to superparasitize is only slightly influenced by the rate of patch encounter. The quality of the previously visited patch has a strong influence. When a poor patch has been visited on the previous day, more superparasitism is observed in the partly depleted patch than when a rich patch has been searched. More superparasitism is also observed when the parasitoids are kept with conspecifics before the experiment than when they are kept alone. Increasing patch residence times are observed as the quality of the previously presented patch decreases. Host selection decisions and patch time allocation are thus clearly influenced by the pre-patch experience of the parasitoid, as predicted by dynamic optimal diet models. This can also explain why females that have never oviposited in unparasitized hosts will superparasitize readily.
Correspondence to: M.E. Visser 相似文献
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Optimal patch time allocation for time-limited foragers 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Eric Wajnberg Pierre Bernhard Frédéric Hamelin Guy Boivin 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2006,60(1):1-10
The Charnov Marginal Value Theorem (MVT) predicts the optimal foraging duration of animals exploiting patches of resources.
The predictions of this model have been verified for various animal species. However, the model is based on several assumptions
that are likely too simplistic. One of these assumptions is that animals are living forever (i.e., infinite horizon). Using
a simple dynamic programming model, we tested the importance of this assumption by analysing the optimal strategy for time-limited
foragers. We found that, for time-limited foragers, optimal patch residence times should be greater than those predicted from
the classic, static MVT, and the deviation should increase when foragers are approaching the end of their life. These predictions
were verified for females of the parasitoid Anaphes victus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) exploiting egg patches of its host, the carrot weevil Listronotus oregonensis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). As predicted by the model, females indeed remained for a longer time on host patches when they
approached the end of their life. Experimental results were finally analysed with a Cox regression model to identify the patch-leaving
decision rules females used to behave according to the model’s predictions. 相似文献
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Madeleine Beekman Rosalyn S. Gloag Naïla Even Wandee Wattanachaiyingchareon Benjamin P. Oldroyd 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2008,62(8):1259-1265
All honeybee species make use of the waggle dance to communicate the direction and distance to both food sources and potential
new nest sites. When foraging, all species face an identical problem: conveying information about profitable floral patches.
However, profound differences in nesting biology (some nest in cavities while others nest in the open, often on a branch or
a cliff face) may mean that species have different requirements when dancing to advertise new nest sites. In cavity nesting
species, nest sites are a precise location in the landscape: usually a small opening leading to a cavity in a hollow tree.
Dances for cavities therefore need to be as precise as possible. In contrast, when the potential nest site comprises a tree
or perhaps seven a patch of trees, precision is less necessary. Similarly, when a food patch is advertised, dances need not
be very precise, as floral patches are often large, unless they are so far away that recruits need more precise information
to be able to locate them. In this paper, we study the dance precision of the open-nesting red dwarf bee Apis florea. By comparing the precision of dances for food sources and nest sites, we show that A. florea workers dance with the same imprecision irrespective of context. This is in sharp contrast with the cavity-nesting Apis mellifera that increases the precision of its dance when advertising a potential new home. We suggest that our results are in accordance
with the hypothesis that the honeybees’ dance communication initially evolved to convey information about new nest sites and
was only later adapted for the context of foraging. 相似文献
14.
Guillaume Rieucau William L. Vickery G. Jean Doucet 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2009,63(6):891-897
The giving-up density of food (GUD), the amount of food remaining in a patch when a forager ceases foraging there, can be
used to compare the costs of foraging in different food patches. But, to draw inferences from GUDs, specific effects of foraging
costs (predation risk, metabolic and missed opportunities costs) on GUDs have to be identified. As high predation risk, high
metabolic costs and abundant food all should produce high GUDs, this does not allow us to infer directly the quality of a
habitat. In order to separate the effect of each foraging cost, we developed an optimal foraging model based on food supplementation.
We illustrate the use of our model in a study where we assessed the impact of a power line right-of-way in a white-tailed
deer (Odocoileus virginianus) winter yard by determining whether the negative effects of cover loss outweigh the positive effects of browse regeneration. 相似文献
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Male migratory birds tend to be more faithful than females to previous breeding sites, suggesting sex differences in costs or benefits of dispersal. In Illinois, greater site fidelity by male yellow-headed blackbirds (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) was associated with reduced reproductive success the following year for dispersers relative to non-dispersers. Dispersing females suffered no reduction in reproductive success the following year. Males that attracted few social mates, and thus had low reproductive success, were more likely to disperse, whereas females dispersed in response to low-patch reproductive success, regardless of their individual performance. Males that dispersed appeared to be successful acquiring territories because none was observed as a floater. The rate of dispersal by males in this low-density population was greater than in more dense populations where dispersing males may be less successful at acquiring territories. Despite success at obtaining territories, males that dispersed acquired territories on the periphery of wetlands where fewer females nested, resulting in lower reproductive success. In the second year after dispersing, however, males moved onto more central territories where they acquired larger harems. Thus, dispersal by males may be a long-term strategy requiring at least 2 years for benefits to be realized. Long-term success was enhanced because dispersing males moved to wetlands on which reproductive success was higher than on the wetlands they left. In addition to demonstrating that both individual and patch reproductive success affect dispersal decisions, these data indicate that when evaluating costs and benefits of dispersal, researchers should use a time frame beyond 1 year. 相似文献
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Daniel Fortin 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2003,54(2):194-203
I examined the searching behavior of free-ranging plains bison (Bos bison bison) in their natural habitat, and determined whether their assessment of food patch quality was influenced by the short-term sampling information acquired during search. Bison used area-concentrated search during their winter foraging activity. Their movements between areas of suitable food patches were influenced by local environmental conditions, being sometimes less sinuous, and at other times more sinuous, than expected from a correlated random walk model. Bison also systematically avoided digging in areas where plants of low profitability lay under the snow. Where they dug, there was evidence that a bison's perception of food quality varied during a foraging bout, and was therefore influenced by short-term sampling information. After controlling for forage quality, I found that small feeding craters were more likely to be preceded by samples of high quality food patches. My observations suggest that bison take advantage of the structural characteristics of their environment during searching activity, and base foraging decisions on local rather than global availability. 相似文献
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Yin-Quan Liu Carlos Bernstein Andra Thiel 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2009,63(10):1459-1469
Foraging animals usually keep track of how costly it is to reach new resource patches and adjust patch residence time and
exploitation rate accordingly. There are at least two potential factors, which are not necessarily closely linked, that animals
could measure to estimate costs of traveling: the time the forager needs to reach the next patch and the amount of energy
it has to invest until arrival. In the parasitoid wasp Venturia canescens, females forage for hosts from which their offspring can develop. Two different types of this parasitoid exist. The thelytokous
type lives in anthropogenic habitats where flight is not necessarily linked with foraging. The arrhenotokous type lives under
field conditions and shows frequent flight activity. We tested whether the wasps would use time or energy needed to assess
patch availability, by either confining them into vials or letting them travel actively in a flight mill between patch visits.
Our results show that in thelytokous lines, time is a sufficient cue influencing patch exploitation and an additional effect
of the energy needed was not visible. In the arrhenotokous wasps, however, only the number of rounds flown in the mill influenced
subsequent behavior, while mere time spent traveling did not.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献
18.
Wolfgang Völkl 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2001,49(2-3):135-144
Pauesia picta, P. pinicollis and P. silvestris (Hymenoptera: Aphidiidae) are common parasitoids of the conifer aphid Cinara pinea, which is regularly attended by red wood ants (Formica spp.). In this study, I tested whether females of these parasitoid species learned during interactions with honeydew-collecting Formica polyctena workers that caution is not necessary if searching behaviour is adapted, and whether parasitoids benefit from being able
to learn. When searching on Scots pines, naive females of P. picta and P. pinicollis generally retreated to a pine needle when making contact with a honeydew-collecting ant, did not approach ants from the side
or from the front and kept a ”safe distance” from ants when sitting on needles. After some non- aggressive ant encounters,
experienced female parasitoids changed their behaviour: they reduced their searching speed, approached ants from the side
and even from the front, retreated less often in response to an approaching ant and reduced the ”safe distance”. These experienced
females had a significantly higher rate of oviposition than naive females or females foraging for an unattended host. Thus,
the ability of the parasitoid to learn during interactions with an antagonist led to a prolonged retention time and a higher
oviposition rate. By contrast, there was no evidence of learning in P. silvestris. Females of this species showed no behavioural change in response to ant encounters, and there was no difference in the foraging
success of naive and experienced female parasitoids.
Received: 7 December 1999 / Revised: 23 September 2000 / Accepted: 10 March 2000 相似文献
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The parsnip webworm, Depressaria pastinacella, specializes on wild parsnip, Pastinaca sativa, and several species of Heracleum, hostplants rich in toxic furanocoumarins. Rates of furanocoumarin metabolism in this species are among the highest known
for any insect. Within its native range in Europe, webworms are heavily parasitized by the polyembryonic parasitoid wasp Copidosoma sosares. In this study, we determined whether these parasitoids are exposed to furanocoumarins in host hemolymph, whether they can
metabolize furanocoumarins, and whether parasitism influences the ability of webworms to detoxify furanocoumarins. Hemolymph
of webworms fed artificial diet containing 0.3 % fresh weight xanthotoxin, a furanocoumarin prevalent in wild parsnip hosts,
contained trace amounts of this toxin; as well, hemolymph of webworms consuming P. sativa flowers and fruits contained trace amounts of six of seven furanocoumarins present in the hostplant. Thus, parasitoids likely
encounter furanocoumarins in host hemolymph. Assays of xanthotoxin metabolism in C. sosares failed to show any ability to metabolize this compound. Parasitized webworms, collected from populations of Heracleum sphondylium in the Netherlands in 2004, were on average 55 % larger by weight than unparasitized individuals. This weight is inclusive
of host and parasitoid masses. Absolute rates of detoxification (nmoles min−1) of five different furanocoumarins were indistinguishable between parasitized and unparasitized ultimate instars, suggesting
that the intrinsic rates of metabolism are fixed. Thus, although parasitized larvae are larger, detoxification rates are not
commensurate with size; rates in parasitized larvae expressed per gram of larval mass were 25 % lower than in unparasitized
larvae. 相似文献
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Arne Janssen Jacques J. M. van Alphen Maurice W. Sabelis Kees Bakker 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1995,36(4):229-235
Although there are many examples of the role of volatile infochemicals in interactions between trophic levels of insect communities, surprisingly little is known of volatile interactions between species within the third trophic level. Recently it was found that Leptopilina heterotoma, an endoparasitoid that attacks Drosophila larvae, avoids one type of patches (decaying stinkhorn mushrooms) when parasitoids of another species (L. clavipes) are present on these patches. L. heterotoma is able to smell the presence of L. clavipes from a distance (Fig. 1). In this paper we investigate the source of the odour that induces avoidance behaviour, by varying the host species and parasitoid species present on stinkhorn mushrooms, and by using another type of patch (sap-fluxes of wounded trees). L. heterotoma was found to avoid stinkhorn patches with conspecific as well as heterospecific parasitoids (Fig. 2). Hosts had to be present in the patch to elicit avoidance, but avoidance behaviour was also found with another host species present in the patch (Fig. 3). No avoidance behaviour was found with sap-flux patches with hosts and parasitoids on them (Fig. 4). Avoidance of stinkhorn patches only occurred when the parasitoids present on the patch were able to contact hosts (Figs. 5 and 6). The exact source of the odour that elicits avoidance is still unclear, so that one can only speculate on the function of the signal. However, there is a clear benefit to the receiver, because it is able to avoid superior competitors. Avoidance can lead to non-aggregated parasitoid distributions. The importance of avoidance behaviour for population dynamics and stability of parasitoid-host systems is discussed. 相似文献