Behavioural fever in a Namib Desert tenebrionid beetle, Onymacris plana

McClain, Elizabeth K.; Magnuson, Paul; Warner, Stephen J.

doi:10.1016/0022-1910(88)90136-9

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“…Behavioural fever has been reported in diverse ectotherms including several insects species and as a result of infection by a range of microparasites, and may help the host to eliminate the parasite (e.g. Bronstein and Conner 1984;McClain et al 1988;Carruthers et al 1992;Watson et al 1993). To our knowledge no studies have assessed effects of temperature on baculovirus-induced mortality.…”

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Wipfelkrankheit : modification of host behaviour during baculoviral infection

Goulson¹

1997

Oecologia

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Infection with an endoparasite frequently alters host behaviour. This study provides the first quantification of larval behaviour in a baculovirus/ Lepidoptera system, and attempts to assess the ecological consequences of behavioural modification during infection. Larvae of the moth Mamestra brassicae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) exhibited higher rates of dispersal in the laboratory and field when infected with Mamestra brassicae nuclear polyhedrosis virus (MbNPV) than did uninfected larvae. They adopted positions at death which were not characteristic of healthy larvae, climbing higher on the foodplant and onto the top and edge of leaves. The horizontal and vertical distribution of virus following larval lysis and the effects of rainfall on this distribution were assessed for comparison with the distributions of healthy and infected larvae. Exposure to rainfall increased the infectivity of vegetation in bioassays. Alternative explanations for the evolutionary origins of behavioural modification are considered. I suggest that the behavioural changes observed are most likely to benefit the virus. In particular, climbing prior to death is likely to result in contamination of more foliage with virus particles than would otherwise occur by increasing exposure of cadavers to rainfall. Thus it may profoundly influence horizontal transmission and the dynamics of the host-virus interaction.

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Wipfelkrankheit : modification of host behaviour during baculoviral infection

Goulson¹

1997

Oecologia

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“…Ectothermic vertebrates and some invertebrates can produce behavioral fever, which means the migration of those animals to warmer microhabitats. This reaction causes an increase of body temperature and helps kill invaders (Bernheim and Kluger 1976;Myhre et al 1977;Bronstein and Conner 1984;McClain et al 1988;Carruthers et al 1992;Watson et al 1993;Woodhams et al 2003). Snails and intramolluscan stages of trematode are very interesting models for studying host-parasite interactions.…”

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Do larvae of trichobilharzia szidati and echinostoma revolutum generate behavioral fever in lymnaea stagnalis individuals?

Żbikowska

2005

Parasitol Res

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The objective of this study was to determine whether individuals of Lymnaea stagnalis naturally parasitized with Trichobilharzia szidati and Echinostoma revolutum can generate the behavioral fever against larvae of those parasites. Thermal preferences of each snail were examined in an oblong thermal gradient during 48 h observation. Uninfected animals under study chose higher temperatures than those releasing cercariae of parasites. Infected snails kept in constant temperature lived shorter than uninfected ones. At high temperature, they released more cercariae per day than at low temperature. Temperature had a great influence on the longevity of emerged cercariae. The thermal behavior of infected snails is not a symptom of behavioral fever but probably can play a therapeutic role in the host.

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“…Behavioral fever can be elicited through infection with macroparasites (including tachinids), bacteria, or fungi and microsporidia in multiple insect species in several different orders, including Orthoptera (Louis et al 1986, Boorstein and Ewald 1987, Adamo 1998, Bundey et al 2003, Lepidoptera (Karban 1998), Diptera (Watson et al 1993), Hymenoptera (Starks et al 2000), Blattodea (Bronstein and Conner 1984), and Coleoptera (McClain et al 1998, Catalán et al 2012). Many orthopterans exhibit behavioral fever in response to fungal pathogens.…”

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“…Namib desert beetles (Onymacris plana Peringuey; McClain et al 1998) and yellow mealworm (Tenebrio molitor L.) larvae (Catalán et al 2012) exhibit behavioral fever when injected with bacterial LPS, and behavioral thermoregulation occurs among scarabs (Chappell 1984, Heinrich andMcClain 1986), silphids (Merrick and Smith 2004), and carabids (Pineda and Kondratieff 2003), many of which bask in the sun after a cold night, before ßight or activity. It has also been suggested that the cerambycid Stenurella melanura Linné behaviorally thermoregulates through basking (Larsson and Kustvall 1990 (Dubois et al 2008).…”

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Thermoregulatory Behavior and Fungal Infection ofAnoplophora glabripennis(Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

Fisher

Hajek

2014

Environ Entomol

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Asian longhorned beetles, Anoplophora glabripennis (Motschulsky), are invasive wood borers that are native to China and Korea but have been introduced to North America and Europe. These beetles have great potential to negatively impact economic and environmental interests in hardwood and urban forests if they become established. The entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium brunneum Petch (previously Metarhizium anisopliae (Metschnikoff) Sorokin) is under development for control of A. glabripennis. Some insect species eliminate pathogens or delay disease progression through thermoregulation. Because Asian longhorned beetles had been observed occupying sunlit areas of the tree canopy, we hypothesized that behavioral fevering could be used to delay mortality of fungal-infected beetles. M. brunneum cultures incubated at 34°C for 5 h/d grew significantly slower compared with cultures incubated at lower temperatures. Holding M. brunneum-infected A. glabripennis at 34°C for 5 h/d significantly delayed mortality by 2 d compared with infected beetles held at ≤31°C. Adult A. glabripennis did not exhibit behavioral fever when infected. Uninfected males, when provided with food, and both uninfected males and females when deprived of food, slightly increased their preferred temperature over time. When held at 15°C before being placed into temperature gradients, uninfected beetles did not increase their temperatures above ambient. Results demonstrate that M. brunneum-infected A. glabripennis do not exhibit behaviors necessary to elevate their body temperatures enough to combat M. brunneum infections through thermoregulation.

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Behavioural fever in a Namib Desert tenebrionid beetle, Onymacris plana

Cited by 30 publications

References 10 publications

Wipfelkrankheit : modification of host behaviour during baculoviral infection

Wipfelkrankheit : modification of host behaviour during baculoviral infection

Do larvae of trichobilharzia szidati and echinostoma revolutum generate behavioral fever in lymnaea stagnalis individuals?

Thermoregulatory Behavior and Fungal Infection ofAnoplophora glabripennis(Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

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