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Many organisms face challenges in avoiding predation while searching for mates. For plants, emitting floral fragrances to advertise reproductive structures could increase the attraction of detrimental insects along with pollinators. Very few studies have experimentally evaluated the costs and benefits of fragrance emission with explicit consideration of how plant fitness is affected by both pollinators and florivores. To determine the reproductive consequences of increasing the apparency of reproductive parts, we manipulated fragrance, pollination, and florivores in the wild Texas gourd, Cucurbita pepo var. texana. With enhanced fragrance we found an increase in the attraction of florivores, rather than pollinators, and a decrease in seed production. This study is the first to demonstrate that enhanced floral fragrance can increase the attraction of detrimental florivores and decrease plant reproduction, suggesting that florivory as well as pollination has shaped the evolution of floral scent. 相似文献
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Joachim Ruther 《Chemoecology》2004,14(3-4):187-192
Summary. Field tests were performed to evaluate the
response of the garden chafer, Phyllopertha horticola
(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) to known scarab attractants and to
investigate the influence of trap colour and height on the
number of captured beetles. Both sexes were attracted by a
lure mixture composed of geraniol, eugenol, and 2-phenylethyl
propionate (PEP) (ratio 3:7:3). When testing floral volatiles
individually, only geraniol, eugenol and methyl anthranilate
but not PEP was attractive. Response of garden chafer to (Z)-
3-hexen-1-ol was strongly male-biassed. Both the response
to floral volatiles and (Z)-3-hexen-1-ol was increased by
using funnel traps with yellow instead of grey vanes. Traps
positioned at 50 and 125 cm above ground captured significantly
more garden chafers than those at 200 cm. The
strongly male-biassed response to (Z)-3-hexen-1-ol suggests
that in P. horticola (subfamily Rutelinae) orientation towards plant volatiles emitted upon mechanical damage of plants is
part of the male mate finding strategy as recently demonstrated
for cockchafers of the genus Melolontha (subfamily Melolonthinae). Possible application of plant volatiles for
control of P. horticola is discussed. 相似文献
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Teodora B. Toshova Dimitar I. Velchev Mitko A. Subchev Miklós Tóth József Vuts John A. Pickett Sarah Y. Dewhirst 《Chemoecology》2010,20(3):199-206
The grey corn weevil, Tanymecus (Episomecus) dilaticollis, is an economically important polyphagous pest in Eastern and Central Europe. The present research is the first published
electrophysiological study of olfactory sensitivity of adult T. dilaticollis to plant volatiles. The electrophysiological responses of male and female antennae were recorded to 20 synthetic volatile
organic compounds (VOCs), previously identified to be released from the preferred host plants, maize and sunflower. Antennae
of both sexes responded to a wide range of volatiles from different chemical classes: fatty acid derivatives, aromatic compounds
and terpenoids. Two green leaf volatiles, (E)-2-hexen-1-ol and (Z)-3-hexen-1-ol, and one terpenoid, (±)-linalool, elicited the strongest electrophysiological responses by male and female
antennae. Relatively high electrophysiological activity by T. dilaticollis antennae was also recorded to benzaldehyde, eugenol and caryophyllene. In the field, (E)-2-hexen-1-ol and (Z)-3-hexen-1-ol, when presented individually, caught significantly more male and female T. dilaticollis than unbaited controls. These compounds could be developed into an attractive trap for the detection and monitoring of T. dilaticollis. 相似文献
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L. W. Simmons R. J. Teale M. Maier R. J. Standish W. J. Bailey P. C. Withers 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1992,31(1):57-62
Summary The cost of reproductive effort is known to result in a trade-off between current and future reproduction. Similarly, trade-offs in energy allocation may occur between components of reproductive effort, mating and parental effort, within a single reproductive episode. We investigated the energy allocated to mating effort (calling to attract females) and parental effort (donation of spermatophore nutrients at mating) by male bushcrickets, Requena verticalis, under two dietary regimes. Males provided with a low quality diet reduced the daily energy allocated to calling activity while maintaining their investment in spermatophores. Males provided with a high quality diet did not allocate more resources per day to their spermatophores but stored excess energy for future reproduction. Thus, on a per day basis, males appear to hold constant their investment in the spermatophore at the cost of reduced mating effort when resources are limited. Males on both diets, however, increased the size of their spermatophore donations when the interval between female encounters was increased. One explanation for this pattern could be a frequency-dependent optimization of spermatophore size.
Correspondence to: L.W. Simmons 相似文献
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William P. Shepherd Dezene P. W. Huber Steven J. Seybold Christopher J. Fettig 《Chemoecology》2007,17(4):209-221
Summary. Stem volatile extracts from ten trees that are sympatric with the western pine beetle, Dendroctonus brevicomis LeConte (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) were assayed by gas chromatographic-electroantennographic detection analysis (GC-EAD).
The extracts were from the primary host, ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex Laws. (Pinaceae); two nonhost angiosperms, California black oak, Quercus kelloggii Newb. (Fagaceae), and quaking aspen, Populus tremuloides Michx. (Salicaceae); and seven nonhost conifers, white fir, Abies concolor (Gord. & Glend.) Lindl. ex Hildebr. (Pinaceae), incense cedar, Calocedrus decurrens (Torr.) Florin (Cupressaceae), Sierra lodgepole pine, P. contorta murrayana Grev. & Balf. (Pinaceae), Jeffrey pine, P. jeffreyi Grev. & Balf. (Pinaceae), sugar pine, P. lambertiana Dougl. (Pinaceae), Douglas-fir, Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco (Pinaceae), and mountain hemlock, Tsuga mertensiana (Bong.) Carr. (Pinaceae). Sixty-four compounds were identified from the ten trees, 42 of which elicited antennal responses
in D. brevicomis, usually in both sexes. In addition, several synthetic compounds, including a number of the antennally-active compounds from
the extracted trees and some bark beetle pheromone components, elicited antennal responses in a manner similar to that observed
with the extracts. Of the antennally-active compounds known to be present in trees sympatric with D. brevicomis, only geraniol was unique to its host. Four antennally-active compounds were found in the host and in other conifers; five
compounds were found only in nonhost conifers; eight compounds were found in either or both of the nonhost angiosperms; eight
compounds were found in either or both of the angiosperms and in nonhost conifers, but not in the host; and 19 were found
in both the host and in angiosperms and/or nonhost conifers. Several bark beetle pheromone components were found in the stem
volatile extracts. Conophthorin was identified from both nonhost angiosperms; exo-brevicomin was identified in A. concolor; verbenone was identified from a number of nonhost conifers; and chalcogran was identified from P. tremuloides. The number of nonhost volatile chemicals that D. brevicomis encounters and is capable of detecting, and the diversity of sources from which they emanate, highlight the complexity of
the olfactory environment in which D. brevicomis forages. This provides a basis for further work related to chemically-mediated aspects of foraging in this insect and perhaps
other coniferophagous bark beetles, and highlights the need to consider foraging context in the design and implementation
of semiochemical-based management tactics for tree protection. 相似文献
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微/纳米塑料(MNPs)在全球水环境中被检出,其污染问题已引起科学界和公众的普遍关注.MNPs因其物理化学特性可对水环境生物产生不可预知的危害.本文综述了MNPs对不同营养级淡水生物(藻类、水溞和鱼类)毒理效应的研究进展,阐述了MNPs对淡水生物毒性的作用机理,重点评述了影响MNPs对淡水生物毒性的主要因素,包括直接因... 相似文献