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Summary. Sensitivities to methyl eugenol of three sibling species in the Bactrocera dorsalis complex were compared. The degree of species sensitivity to methyl eugenol, i.e. B. dorsalis > B. papayae > B. carambolae (in decreasing order), was concomitant with the species age-related response to methyl eugenol as previously reported. The
ability to consume methyl eugenol by the three sibling species showed similar trend - the average ME consumption per male
was 0.70 ml for B. dorsalis, 0.58 ml B. papayae and 0.18 μl B. carambolae. Results obtained were discussed in relation to area-wide control of fruit fly.
Received 21 April 2002; accepted 9 July 2002 相似文献
2.
Fleur E. Champion de Crespigny Nina Wedell 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2007,61(8):1229-1235
The maternally inherited bacterium Wolbachia pipientis generates strong reproductive incompatibilities between uninfected females and infected males (cytoplasmic incompatibility),
significantly reducing both female and male reproductive success. Such fitness costs are thought to place selective pressure
on hosts to evolve pre-copulatory preferences for mating with compatible mates, thereby enabling them to avoid the reproductive
incompatibilities associated with Wolbachia. Therefore, uninfected females are predicted to prefer mating with uninfected males, whereas infected males are predicted
to prefer mating with infected females. Despite these predictions, previous investigations of pre-copulatory mate preferences
in Wolbachia-manipulated Drosophila have not found evidence of female preference for uninfected or compatible males. However, none of these studies utilised
a design where focal individuals are provided with a simple choice in a relatively non-competitive situation. We examined
both female and male pre-copulatory mate preference based on mate infection status in Drosophila simulans and D. melanogaster using simple choice assays involving between 30–50 replicates per treatment. Although we found no evidence of female pre-copulatory
mate preferences in either species, male D. simulans exhibited some preference for mating with females of the same infection status. However, this preference was not evident
when we repeated the experiment to confirm this finding. Consequently, we conclude that neither male nor female D. melanogaster and D. simulans exhibit significant Wolbachia-associated pre-copulatory mate preferences. 相似文献
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Juan Camilo Marín Loaiza Carlos L. Céspedes Till Beuerle Claudine Theuring Thomas Hartmann 《Chemoecology》2007,17(2):109-115
Summary. The occurrence of pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) in Pittocaulon (ex Senecio) praecox (Asteraceae) a species endemic to Mexico was established. The aboveground plant organs contain the 1,2-saturated monoester
7-angeloyl-dihydroxyheliotridane together with a small proportion of its 9-angeloyl isomer as major alkaloid. The monoesters
are accompanied by the macrocyclic otonecine derivative senkirkine. Roots contain only related macrocyclic PAs with senecionine,
senkirkine and platyphylline as major components; monoesters are absent. The broom-like succulent stems of P. praecox are infested by the scale insect Ceroplastes albolineatus conspicuously visible by its huge wax cover. All life-history stages, i.e. females, eggs, first instar nymphs (crawlers)
and the wax cover were found associated with PAs. The measured PA concentrations clearly indicate sequestration. The highest
PA concentrations (mg / g dry weight) reached are: mature females, 0.44; eggs, 0.58; crawlers, 0.37; wax cover, 0.08. The
host plant as well as in the infesting scale insect contain the PAs exclusively as free bases. As a phloem-feeder C. albolineatus must acquire the PAs with the ingested phloem sap. This appears plausible since in Senecio species PA are transmitted and circulated through the phloem path. It is suggested that PAs may protect particularly the
crawlers as the most endangered stage in the life-cycle of the scale insect. 相似文献
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Johannes Stökl Robert Twele Dirk H. Erdmann Wittko Francke Manfred Ayasse 《Chemoecology》2007,17(4):231-233
Summary.
Ophrys flowers mimic the female produced sex pheromone of their pollinator species to attract males for pollination. The males try
to copulate with the putative female and thereby pollinate the flower. Using electrophysiological and chemical analyses, floral
volatiles released by O. iricolor as well as the female sex pheromone of its pollinator species, Andrena morio are investigated. Overall, 38 peaks comprising 41 chemical compounds, were found to release reactions in the antennae of
male A. morio bees. Analyses using coupled gas chromatography-mass spectrometry revealed the presence of alkanes and alkenes with 20 to
29 carbon atoms, aldehydes (C9 to C24) and two esters. Almost all of those compounds were found in similar proportions in
both, the floral extracts of O. iricolor and cuticle surface extracts of A. morio females. The pattern of biologically active volatiles described here is very similar to that used by other Ophrys species pollinated by Andrena males. 相似文献
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Merrill A. Peterson Susanne Dobler Erica L. Larson Danielle Juárez Tim Schlarbaum Kirsten J. Monsen Wittko Francke 《Chemoecology》2007,17(2):87-96
Summary. Chemical signals frequently underlie sexual isolation between insect species. Our understanding of the evolutionary forces
influencing these signaling systems is known for very few systems, challenging both our efforts to understand insect speciation,
and our ability to predict long-term changes in the chemical communication systems of insects. Thus, we are in need of more
systems in which both the chemical signals causing sexual isolation and the evolutionary forces driving sexual isolation are
understood. Sexual isolation in the hybrid zone between Chrysochus cobaltinus and C. auratus has apparently increased in response to natural selection against hybridisation (i.e. reinforcement). Previous experiments
suggested that this isolation was due, at least in part, to male preferences for conspecific females. Here, we confirm this
role of male choice, and document that male mate choice in this system is influenced by cuticular hydrocarbon (CHC) profiles.
Specifically, male C. cobaltinus responses to control cadavers and conspecific female cadavers painted with different cuticular hexane extracts, together
with analyses of the composition of those extracts, revealed that male mate choice is governed by CHC profiles. Multivariate
analyses of GC profiles demonstrated that those profiles are indeed both sex- and species-specific. Although GC-MS enabled
identification and quantification of the specific cuticular hydrocarbons, we have not yet determined which individual compounds
govern mate choice. Having established that CHCs influence sexual isolation in this system, we can now assess the evolutionary
lability of these cues, which will inform both our understanding of speciation, and of the conditions under which the chemical
signaling systems that influence mate choice in insects can evolve. 相似文献
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Nataliya Voloshchuk Mona Knop Thomas Colby Erich Kombrink Lothar Hennig Diana Hofmann Dieter Sicker Andrej Gryganski Margot Schulz 《Chemoecology》2007,17(1):1-12
Summary. Doratomyces stemonitis (Hyphomycetales, Dematiaceae) is a saprotrophic fungus belonging to the mycobiota of the cereal rhizosphere. The fungus is
able to metabolize benzoxazolin-2-(3H)-one and a variety of its derivatives including higher plant detoxification products, microbial degradation products and
the chemically rather stable 2-amino-(3H)-phenoxazin-3-one. D. stemonitis can use all of these compounds as sole C-sources but their utilization, especially that of microbial degradation products
and 2-amino-(3H)-phenoxazin-3-one, seems to be highly energy consuming, resulting in slow mycelium growth and a change of colony morphology.
Benzoxazolin-2-(3H)-one derived compounds induce the synthesis of different isoforms of a glycosylated protein with sequence homologies to the
endo-1,3-β-glucanase Asp f2, an allergen from Aspergillus fumigatus and other Asp f2-like proteins e.g., from Verticillium dahliae or PRA1 antigen from Candida albicans. The induction of the protein is regarded as a stress response. 相似文献
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A conflict over male production arises in social insects where workers are able to lay unfertilized male eggs. This happens
because each female (queen or worker) is most closely related to her own sons and is thus predicted to reproduce. The conflict
is modulated by worker policing where workers prevent each other from reproducing by aggression or egg cannibalism. In this
study, we show that in the ant Formica fusca, worker policing occurs by egg cannibalism rather than by overt aggression among workers. Furthermore, we show that, contrary
to bees, wasps and other ant species, egg discrimination in F. fusca is not based only on a universal queen signature chemical and that nest mate recognition of eggs occurs. 相似文献
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Fine-scale movement patterns in penaeid prawns are rarely observed in situ, but are essential in understanding habitat use,
foraging, and anti-predator behaviour. Acoustic telemetry was applied to examine the activity, space utilization, and habitat
use of the eastern king prawn Penaeus (Melicertus) plebejus, at small temporal and spatial scales. Tracking of sub-adult P. plebejus (n = 9) in Wallagoot Lake (36.789°S, 149.959°E; 23 April–12 May 2009) and calculation of a minimum activity index (MAI) revealed high variation in activity rates across diel periods and in different habitats. Elevated activity rates and movement
indicated foraging in unvegetated habitats during the night. Areas within the 95 and 50% space utilization contours averaged
2,654.1 ± 502.0 and 379.9 ± 103.9 m2, respectively, and there was a significant negative relationship between these areas and prawn activity rates in unvegetated
habitats. This study provides the first estimates of prawn activity rates and space utilization in the field. Application
of acoustic telemetry can increase knowledge of prawn movements and their interactions with other marine species in different
habitats. 相似文献
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Summary. Sequestration of plant toxins in herbivores is often
correlated with aposematic coloration and gregarious behaviour. Larvae
of Pieris brassicae show these conspicuous morphological and behavioural
characteristics and were thus suggested to sequester glucosinolates that
are characteristic secondary metabolites of their host plants. P. rapaeare camouflaged and solitary, and are thus not expected to sequester. To
test this hypothesis and to check the repeatabi-lity of a study that did
report the presence of the glucosinolate sinigrin in P. brassicae,
larvae were reared on three species of Brassicaceae (Sinapis alba,
Brassica nigra and Barbarea stricta), and different leaf and insect
samples were taken for glucosinolate analysis. The major host plant
glucosinolates could only be found in traces or not at all in larval
haemolymph, bled or starved larvae, faeces or pupae of both species or
P. brassicae regurgitant. Haemolymph of both Pieris spp. was not
rejected by the ant Myrmica rubra in dual-choice assays; the regurgitant
of P. brassicae was rejected. This suggests the presence of compounds
other than glucosinolates that might be sequestered in or produced by P.
brassicae only. In faeces of both Pieris spp. a compound which yielded
4-hydroxybenzylcyanide (HBC) upon incubation with sulfatase was detected
in high concentrations when larvae had been reared on S. alba. This
compound may be derived from hydrolysis of sinalbin, the main
glucosinolate of that plant. The unidentified HBC progenitor was
apparently not sequestered in the two Pieris spp., and was not detected
in faeces of larvae reared on B. nigra or B. stricta.
Received 18 July 2002; accepted 11 September 2002. 相似文献
10.
Piyamas Nanork Siriwat Wongsiri Benjamin P. Oldroyd 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2007,61(10):1509-1514
Honey bee workers are able to distinguish queen-laid eggs from worker-laid eggs, and remove (‘police’) worker-laid eggs. The
cue that police workers use is as yet unidentified but is likely to be a chemical signal. This signal benefits queens for
it ensures their reproductive monopoly. It also benefits collective workers because it allows them to raise more closely related
queen-laid males than the less-related sons of half sisters. Because both parties benefit from the egg-marking signal, it
should be stable over evolutionary time. We show that Apis mellifera workers can distinguish queen-laid from worker-laid eggs of the dwarf honey bee A. florea, a phylogenetically distant species that diverged from the A. mellifera lineage 6–10 mya. However, A. mellifera workers are unable to distinguish worker-laid eggs of A. cerana, a much more recent divergence (2–3 mya). The apparent change in the egg-marking signal used by A. cerana may be associated with the high rates of ovary activation in this species. 相似文献
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Susanna Andersson 《Chemoecology》2003,13(1):13-20
Summary. To better understand the biological role of floral scents for
butterflies, electrophysiological responses to floral scents were
investigated using combined gas chromatography and electroantennographic
detection (GC-EAD). The antennal responses of three butterfly species,
Aglais urticae L. (Nymphalidae), Inachis io L. (Nymphalidae), and
Gonepteryx rhamni L. (Pieridae) to floral scent compounds from both
natural and synthetic mixtures were examined. Floral scents were
collected from the butterfly nectar plants Cirsium arvense (L.)
(Asteraceae), and Buddleja davidii Franchet cv. (Loganicaeae) with
dynamic head-space methods on Tenax-GR and eluted with pentane. These
eluates, composed of natural floral scent blends, represent an array of
compounds in their natural state. In the GC-EAD analyses eleven
compounds were identified from C. arvense with the benzenoid compound
phenylacetaldehyde in highest abundance. Seventeen compounds were
identified from B. davidii with the irregular terpene oxoisophorone in
highest abundance. Thirty-nine synthetic floral scent compounds were
mixed in pentane, in equal amounts; about 35 ng were allowed to reach
the antennae. The butterflies showed antennal responses to most of the
floral scent compounds from both natural and synthetic blends except to
the highly volatile monoterpene alkenes. Certain benzenoid compounds
such as phenylacetaldehyde, monoterpenes such as linalool, and irregular
terpenes such as oxoisophorone, were emitted in relatively large amounts
from C. arvense and B. davidii, and elicited the strongest antennal
responses. These compounds also elicited strong antennal responses when
present in the synthetic scent blends. Thus, the butterflies seem to
have many and /or sensitive antennal receptors for these compounds,
which points to their biological importance. Moreover, these compounds
are exclusively of floral scent origin. For B. davidii, which depends
highly on butterflies for pollination, the exclusive floral scent
compounds emitted in high abundance could be the result of an adaptive
pressure to attract butterflies.
Received 2 Septemter 2001; accepted 9 September 2002. 相似文献
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Olivier Roux Charles Gers Josèphe Nathan Tene-Ghomsi Laurence Arvanitakis Dominique Bordat Luc Legal 《Chemoecology》2007,17(1):13-18
Summary. Cotesia plutellae is a specialist parasitoid of Plutella xylostella. This specificity is potentially under the control of several factors before and after oviposition. Thereby, the stimuli
that lead female parasitoids to host locations and to oviposition, might be at the basis of the specificity. We explore here
the response of C. plutellae females exposed to host cuticular lipids. A total cuticular lipid extract of host caterpillars was fractionated into a hydrocarbon
fraction and a non-hydrocarbon fraction. Neither fraction alone had any effect on oviposition behaviour in C. plutellae but the hydrocarbon fraction alone did seem to have a positive effect on the rate of antennal contact by the females. To
induce oviposition behaviour, both fractions were necessary and reflect cooperation between at least one compound in each
fraction. Identification of cuticular lipids shows that hydrocarbons were dominant (77%). Non-hydrocarbon compounds were mainly
represented by 15-nonacosanone (18% of the total lipid extract). This ketone is rare in insect cuticle lipids and is thought
to originate from the cabbage epicuticle where it is dominant with n-C29 and 14- and 15-nonacosanol also found among the cuticular lipids of the host caterpillar. 相似文献
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Offspring should be selected to influence maternal effort to maximize their own fitness, whereas mothers are selected to limit
investment in present progeny. In mammals, this leads to a conflict over the amount of milk provided and the timing of weaning.
The intensity and time course of such conflict has so far mostly been investigated experimentally in altricial rodents. However,
it is expected that offspring options for conflict will depend on developmental state. We therefore investigated in the highly
precocial domestic guinea pig (Cavia aperea f. porcellus) who decides over nursing performance and weaning and how pup state influences these decisions. Specifically, we tested whether
a threshold mass of pups predicts weaning time. By exchanging older litters against neonates and vice versa, we produced a
situation in which females differed in lactational stage from the cross-fostered pups. Our results indicate that females decide
about the timing of weaning, as cross-fostered younger pups were weaned at a much younger age than controls and older pups
benefited from continuing lactation of foster mothers. Growth rates did not differ in the treatment groups, and different
weaning ages resulted in differing weaning mass refuting the hypothesis that weaning is based on a threshold mass of offspring.
This constitutes clear evidence that in a precocial rodent, the guinea pig, decisions about maternal care are primarily determined
by maternal state and little influenced by pup state despite the extreme precociality of offspring. We suggest that precocial
pups show little resistance to early weaning when food is abundant, as they reach sufficient nutritional independence by the
middle of lactation to enable independent survival. 相似文献
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Susanna Andersson 《Chemoecology》2003,13(1):1-11
Summary. For butterflies to be efficient foragers, they need to
be able to recognize rewarding flowers. Flower signals such as colours
and scents assist this recognition process. For plant species to attract
and keep butterflies as pollinators, species-specific floral signals are
crucial. The aim of this study is to investigate foraging responses to
floral scents in three temperate butterfly species, Inachis io L.
(Nymphalidae), Aglais urticae L. (Nymphalidae), and
Gonepteryx rhamni L. (Pieridae), in behavioural choice
bioassays. The butterflies were allowed to choose bet-ween flower models
varying in scent and colour (mauve or green). Flowers or vegetative
parts from the plants Centaurea scabiosa L. (Asteraceae),
Cirsium arvense (L.) (Asteraceae), Knautia arvensis (L.)
(Dipsacaceae), Buddleja davidii Franchet (Loganicaeae), Origanum vulgareL. (Lamiaceae), Achillea millefolium L. (Asteraceae), and
Philadelphus coronarius L. (Hydrangiaceae) were used as scent
sources. All visits to the models — those that included probing and
those that did not — were counted, as was the duration of these
behaviours. Both flower-naive and flower-experienced (conditioned to
sugar-water rewards, the colour mauve, and specific floral scents)
butterflies were tested for their preference for floral versus
vegetative scents, and to floral scent versus colour. The butterflies
were also tested for their ability to switch floral scent preferences in
response to rewards. Flower-naive butterflies demonstrated a preference
for the floral scent of the butterfly-favourable plants C.
arvense and K. arvensis over the floral scent of the non-favourable
plants Achillea millefolium (Asteraceae), and Philadelphus
coronarius cv. (Hydrangiaceae). Most of the butterflies that were
conditioned to floral scents of either C. arvense, K. arvensis,
or B. davidii readily switched theirfloral scent preferences to
the one most recently associated with reward, thus demonstrating that
floral scent constancy is a result from learning. These findings suggest
that these butterflies use floral scent as an important cue signal to
initially identify and subsequently recognize and distinguish among
rewarding plants.
Received 2 September 2001; accepted 9 September 2002. 相似文献
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Short-term (3 h) changes in concentration of chlorophylls and their derivatives in stage V Pseudodiaptomus euryhalinus and their fecal material were followed by HPLC during a 24 h experiment. Copepodites were fed with the prasinophyte Tetraselmis suecica. Intact chlorophyll a and b were found in animals and fecal material and had similar dynamics of accumulation over time. The extent of transformation of chlorophyll a and b to colorless compounds was different with chlorophyll a being more extensively degraded. Additionally, several chlorophyll derivatives (pheophytin and pyropheophytin-like pigments) were found. Pyropheophytin a was the most abundant followed by pheophytin b, pheophytin a, and pheophorbide a. Relative amounts of pheopigments were different in copepodites and fecal material, and pheophytin a, pheophorbide a, and pheophytin b concentrations were low and variable. The amount of ingested chlorophyll recovered as chlorophyll a and its derivatives in fecal and copepodite pools was generally low (<5%), with one exception occurring after 9 h, when it accounted for >70%. These data suggest individual pheopigments are produced at different rates and that chemical or enzymatic mechanisms in the gut of copepodites act on the two chlorophylls in different ways. 相似文献
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J. D. Salierno J. D. Shields A. Z. Murphy G. E. Hoffman A. S. Kane 《Marine Biology》2007,152(4):835-843
To better understand sublethal effects of harmful algal blooms (HABs) on fish, mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus (L.), were exposed in the laboratory to varying, environmentally relevant densities of Pfiesteria shumwayae (Glasgow et Burkholder, CCMP 2089, dinoflagellate) and Chaetoceros concavicornis (Mangin, CCMP 169, diatom). Two experiments were conducted during the spring of 2003 and 2004 to quantitatively examine the
effects of acute (2 h) P. shumwayae and C. concavicornis algal exposure on mummichog brain activity using c-Fos expression as a marker of altered neuronal activity. Brains from HAB-exposed
fish were removed, sectioned, and stained using immunocytochemistry prior to quantifying neuronal c-Fos expression. Fish exposed
to P. shumwayae and C. concavicornis showed increased c-Fos expression compared to unexposed control fish. A significant dose-response relationship was observed,
with increased labeling in brains of fish exposed to higher cell densities for both HAB species tested (P ≤ 0.01). Increased labeling was found in the telencephalon, optic lobes, midbrain, and portions of the medulla. The greatest
increases in expression were observed in the telencephalon of P. shumwayae-exposed fish, and in the telencephalon and optic lobes of C. concavicornis-exposed fish (P ≤ 0.01). These increases in c-Fos expression are consistent with other physical and chemical stress exposures observed in
fish. Neuronal stress, evidenced by c-Fos expression, demonstrates a sublethal effect of exposure and changes in brain activity
in fish exposed to HAB species. 相似文献
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The reproductive cycles and abundance of the sympatric colonial ascidians Pycnoclavella brava, Pycnoclavella aurilucens and Pycnoclavella communis from two Northwestern Mediterranean sites over a period of 2.5 years are reported. The species showed some differences in
their biological patterns. Gonad maturation and larval brooding took place during autumn and early winter for P. communis, during spring for P. aurilucens and during late winter and spring for P. brava. Summer was found to be the unfavorable season for all species, and an aestivation period occurred in P. communis and P. brava. Maximum abundance for the three species was observed during winter. Growth rates of the most abundant species, P. communis, were also monitored and found to peak during the initial phases of reactivation after aestivation. Growth rates decreased
afterwards, becoming negative as water temperature started to increase after the winter minima. Reproductive activity and
growth rates for P. communis displayed a temporal lag that suggested partitioning of resources to either reproduction or growth in this species. 相似文献
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Nestmate recognition for eggs in the honeybee (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Apis mellifera</Emphasis> L.)
Christian W. W. Pirk Peter Neumann Randall Hepburn 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2007,61(11):1685-1693
Colony integrity is fundamental to social insects and is threatened by the reproduction of non-nestmates. Therefore, discrimination
between eggs derived from nestmates and non-nestmates would constitute an adaptation to prevent exploitation of the entire
cooperative group by unrelated individuals. The removal of nestmate and non-nestmate queen and worker-laid eggs was evaluated
in honeybees using colonies of Apis mellifera capensis to test female and of A. m. scutellata to test male eggs. The data show that honeybees can distinguish between nestmate and non-nestmate eggs of both sexes. Moreover,
non-nestmate female queen-laid eggs were removed significantly faster than nestmate female worker-laid eggs in A. m. capensis, indicating that nestmate recognition cues can override caste-specific ones. While the experimental manipulation accounts
for 37.2% (A. m. scutellata) or 1.6% (A. m. capensis) of variance in relation to egg removal, nestmate recognition explains 33.3% for male eggs (A. m. scutellata) and 60.6% for female eggs (A. m. capensis), which is almost twice as high as the impact of caste (16.7% A. m. scutellata; 25% A. m. capensis). Our data show a stronger effect of nestmate recognition on egg removal in the honeybee, suggesting that cues other than
caste-specific ones (viability/kin) can dominate egg removal behavior. In light of intraspecific social parasitism, preventing
the reproduction of unrelated individuals (group selection) rather than preferring queens’ eggs (kin selection) appears to
be the driving force behind the evolution of egg removal behavior in honeybees. 相似文献
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Laura K. Sirot Norene A. Buehner Anthony C. Fiumera Mariana F. Wolfner 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2009,63(10):1505-1513
In many species, seminal fluid proteins (SFPs) affect female post-mating behavioral patterns, including sperm storage, egg
laying, feeding, and remating. Yet, few studies have investigated the patterns of allocation, depletion, and replenishment
of SFPs in male animals, despite the importance of these proteins to male and female reproductive success. To investigate
such SFP dynamics, it is necessary to have a sensitive method for quantifying SFP levels in males and mated females. We developed
such a method by adapting the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) using anti-SFP antibodies. Here, we first use two
Drosophila melanogaster SFPs (ovulin and sex peptide) to demonstrate that ELISAs provide accurate measures of SFP levels. We find that, consistent
with previous data from Western blotting or immunofluorescence studies, levels of both ovulin and sex peptide decline in the
mated female with time since mating, but they do so at different rates. We then use ELISAs to show that males become depleted
of SFPs with repeated matings, but that previously mated males are able to transfer “virgin” levels of SFPs after 3 days of
sexual inactivity. Finally, we demonstrate that ELISAs can detect SFPs from wild-caught D. melanogaster males and, thus, potentially can be used to track mating patterns in the wild. This method of measuring SFP dynamics can
be used in a wide range of species to address questions related to male reproductive investment, female mating history, and
variation in female post-mating behavioral changes.
Norene A. Buehner and Anthony C. Fiumera contributed equally to this work. 相似文献
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Echinoderms are major predators of anemones in temperate ecosystems. The fate of two algae, zooxanthellae and zoochlorellae, after their host anemone (Anthopleura elegantissima Brandt) was consumed by the leather star Dermasterias imbricata Grube was determined in experiments conducted in July and August 2004. Productivity, photosynthetic pigments, and mitotic index (percent of cells dividing) were used as indicators of algal health; algae released after leather stars consumed their host were compared with algae freshly isolated from anemones. Two types of waste products contained algae: pellets resulting from extraoral digestion, and feces. Zooxanthellae and zoochlorellae isolated from these waste products were photosynthetic, although to different extents. For algae from feces and pellets, light-saturated photosynthetic rates (P
max) were 85 and 13%, respectively, of P
max of freshly isolated zooxanthellae; and were 20 and 46%, respectively, for zoochlorellae. The photosynthetic pigments and mitotic index (percent of dividing cells) were not altered by the feeding activities of the leather star. These results show that algae released by seastar predation on their hosts remain viable, and are hence available for establishing symbioses in A. elegantissima and other potential hosts. 相似文献