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Summary. Young larvae of Adalia bipunctata search an area more intensively when exposed to the odour from other larvae feeding on aphids than when exposed only to the
odour of aphids. In an olfactometer young larvae were significantly attracted either to the odour of crushed aphids or larvae
feeding on aphids, but not to that of aphids, larvae, larvae plus aphids or larvae feeding on an artificial diet. That is,
the change in searching behaviour appears in response to a volatile released by aphids when attacked. The odour released by
crushed aphids is made up entirely of aphid alarm pheromone, β-farnesene. It is likely that the adaptive significance of this
response is that it increases the ability of larvae to locate larvae that have already caught prey. By sharing the aphid kill
of another larva it is likely that a first instar ladybird larva greatly increases its probability of surviving to the next
instar. It is suggested that this social feeding is facilitated by egg clustering, which also may additionally account for
why aphidophagous ladybirds lay their eggs in clusters.
Received 28 February 2000; accepted 24 March 2000 相似文献
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Little has been done to compare the relative importance of various mechanisms through which prey assess the potential risk
from natural enemies. We used predator-naive spider mites (Tetranychus urticae, Tetranychidae) to (1) compare the responses of prey to chemical cues from enemy and non-enemy species and (2) investigate
the source of these cues. In the laboratory, we observed the distribution of T. urticae in response to cues from nine mite species, including (1) predators of spider mites, (2) predators/parasites of other animals,
and (3) fungivores/pollen-feeders. When given a choice over 24 h, spider mites foraged and oviposited in fewer numbers on
leaf discs that were previously exposed to predatory or parasitic mites (including species incapable of attacking spider mites)
than on clean leaf discs (unexposed to mites). Interestingly, previous exposure of leaf arenas to fungivores and pollen-feeders
had no significant effect on spider mite distribution. We then observed the response of T. urticae to cues from two species of predator that had been reared on a diet of either spider mites or pollen. T. urticae showed stronger avoidance of leaf discs that were previously exposed to spider-mite-fed predators than of discs exposed to
pollen-fed predators. Nevertheless, for one predator species (Amblyseius andersoni), T. urticae still preferred to forage and oviposit on clean (unexposed) discs than on discs exposed to pollen-fed predators. Protein-derived
metabolic wastes of predatory or parasitic mites may provide a general cue about potential predation risk for T. urticae. However, T. urticae also avoided areas exposed to pollen-fed predators, suggesting there may be other sources of enemy recognition by the spider
mites. We discuss the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that may influence the scope of information through which animals
assess predation risk.
Received: 11 January 1999 / Received in revised form: 25 October 1999 / Accepted: 20 November 1999 相似文献
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棉铃虫灾害的长期性及性信息素的减灾控害作用 总被引:13,自引:1,他引:13
简要分析了我国棉铃虫灾害的长期性,并较全面地介绍了性信息素在减灾控害中的作用。这些作用可分为:帮助识别对象害虫、监测种群状态、迅速普及虫情信息、直接诱杀雄虫以及提前1周开展减灾行动等。直接诱杀雄虫后,引起雌雄比上升,雌蛾产卵量下降,孵化率降低,幼虫及为害量减少,其中幼虫量一般减少20%-50%。根据在新疆、山东等地的试用经验,作者在首次指出性信息帮助识别害虫和迅速普及虫情信息对减灾的关键作用,并讨论了性信息素的干扰交配和诱杀雌虫的可能作用,以及使用性信息素与农业可持续发展的关系。 相似文献
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Summary. We tested the hypothesis that aggregation behaviour of the
firebrat, Thermobia domestica (Packard) (Thysanura: Lepismatidae), an
inhabitant of enclosed microhabitats, is mediated, at least in part, by
a pheromone. Individual insects were released into the central chamber
of a 3-chambered olfactometer and test stimuli were placed in lateral
chambers. Paper discs previously exposed for 3 days to 10 female, male,
or juvenile T. domestica were all preferred by female, male, or juvenile
T. domestica over unexposed paper discs, indicating the presence of an
aggregation/arrestment pheromone. In additional experiments, frass and
scales from female T. domestica, tested singly and in combination,
proved not to be the source of the pheromone. Physical contact was
required for pheromone recognition, indicating that the pheromone
arrests rather than attracts conspecifics. Arrestment by the
long-tailed silverfish, Ctenolepisma longicaudata Escherich
(Thysanura: Lepismatidae), but not by the common silverfish, Lepisma
saccharina L. (Thysanura: Lepismatidae), to T. domestica exposed
paper discs suggests closer phylogenetic relatedness between C.
longicaudata and T. domestica, than between C.
longicaudata and L. saccharina. Whether C.
longicaudata or L. saccharina produce an aggregation
signal, and whether T. domestica respond to this signal is unknown.
Received 10 June 2002; accepted 30 September 2002. 相似文献
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Summary. Lactating rabbit females emit volatile odour cues that trigger specialized motor actions leading to sucking. But the activity
of these cues may change with advancing lactation. Here, we tested this possibility in three experiments. In Exp. 1, we assessed
whether 2-day-old pups respond differently to the odour of milk from females in early (day 2) as compared to late (day 23)
lactation. In Exp. 2, a compound bearing pheromonal properties, the Mammary Pheromone (MP), was dosed in these milks to assess
whether its concentration is correlated with behavioural activity. In Exp. 3, the responsiveness to a constant level of MP
was compared in d2 versus d23-pups. Run on 240 pups, the assays showed that a) the milk activity declines between d2 and d23
of lactation; b) during this same period, the concentration of the MP decreases in milk; c) the MP itself becomes less active
to elicit oral grasping in pre-weaning pups than in newborns. These results indicate that the MP is active during the period
when pups are exclusively dependent on milk. The convergent changes in emission and reception of this pheromone may sequentially
warrant that pups are first attracted to the mammae, and then that they progressively disinvest the mother as they begin to
eat solid food and to be attracted by other conspecifics. 相似文献
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Summary. Across North America, populations of the pine engraver, Ips pini, differ in their expressed ratios of the two enantiomers of ipsdienol, the main component of its aggregation pheromone. We
confirm previous studies, showing that the percentage of (+)-ipsdienol ranged from approximately 40 to 70% for New York (NY)
males and less then 5% for California (CA) males. We performed line crosses including the F1, F2, and backcross generations
between these populations. These line crosses showed that most F1 hybrids produced an intermediate enantiomeric blend of ipsdienol
that was closer to the CA blend, with a frequency distribution peak near 15% (+)-ipsdienol. There was also strong segregation
to either parental type in the F2 and backcross generations, but not in a pattern that could be clearly described by a single
autosomal locus. There was also an X-linked effect that caused some individuals in the F1 to have phenotypes more characteristic
of NY populations. Generation means analysis confirms this X-linked effect, and also suggests a complicated autosomal dominance
by dominance epistatic interaction. Despite the appearance of segregation, these results suggest a more complicated system
of pheromone blend control than the single major gene previously found between divergent lines for high and low (+)-ipsdienol
blends from the hybrid zone in British Columbia.
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1-Tridecene—male-produced sex pheromone of the tenebrionid beetle <Emphasis Type="Italic">Parastizopus transgariepinus</Emphasis> 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Males of the genus Parastizopus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) exhibit a special pheromone-emitting behaviour. They do a headstand, expose the aedeagus and remain in this posture for a few seconds. The pheromone emitted by P. transgariepinus was collected by solid-phase micro-extraction (100 microm polydimethylsiloxane fibre) and identified as 1-tridecene by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. Presumably, this compound originates from the aedeagal gland, a special feature in Parastizopus, as 1-tridecene is the main compound in the gland reservoirs (23.6+/-3.8%), accompanied by various less volatile fatty acid esters (25.2+/-2.0%) and hydrocarbons (51.2+/-5.7%). 1-Tridecene is also part of the pygidial defensive secretion of both sexes, together with other 1-alkenes, monoterpene hydrocarbons and 1,4-benzoquinones, but as none of these other compounds was detected during calling, the pygidial gland could be ruled out as pheromone source. Extracts of the aedeagal gland reservoirs and the pygidial defensive secretion contained comparable amounts of 1-tridecene, 1.24+/-0.41 and 1.88+/-0.54 microg/male, respectively. Chemo-orientation experiments using a servosphere showed that 1 microg of 1-tridecene was attractive to females but not to males. 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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Farrell Jay A. Murlis John Long Xuezhu Li Wei Cardé Ring T. 《Environmental Fluid Mechanics》2002,2(1-2):143-169
This article presents the theoretical motivation, implementation approach, and example validation results for a computationally efficient plume simulation model, designed to replicate both the short-term time signature and long-term exposure statistics of a chemical plume evolving in a turbulent flow. Within the resulting plume, the odor concentration is intermittent with rapidly changing spatial gradient. The model includes a wind field defined over the region of interest that is continuous, but which varies with location and time in both magnitude and direction. The plume shape takes a time varying sinuous form that is determined by the integrated effect of the wind field. Simulated and field data are compared. The motivation for the development of such a simulation model was the desire to evaluate various strategies for tracing odor plumes to their source, under identical conditions. The performance of such strategies depends in part on the instantaneous response of target receptors; therefore, the sequence of events is of considerable consequence and individual exemplar plume realizations are required. Due to the high number of required simulations, computational efficiency was critically important. 相似文献
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Jim Hardie Stephen F. Nottingham Glenn W. Dawson Richard Harrington John A. Pickett Lester J. Wadhams 《Chemoecology》1992,3(3-4):113-117
Summary Transparent plastic water traps, baited with the synthetic aphid sex pheromone components (4aS,7S,7aR)-nepetalactone and (1R,4aS,7S,7aR)-nepetalactol or control lures, were placed in four semi-sheltered field sites at a height of 1.1 m. Although males of twenty-one aphid species were collected from the water traps, onlySitobion fragariae (Walker) was abundant. In total, 8 pheromone traps produced 102 males compared with only 10 males in 8 control traps. The sex pheromone released by sexual femaleS. fragariae was identified as the nepetalactone used in the lures. Aphid sex pheromones may be more species-specific than previously thought and the presence of a host plant is not essential for males to locate sexual females. 相似文献