Composition of the honeydew of the aphid Brevicoryne brassicae (L.) feeding on swedes (Brassica napobrassica DC.)

Lamb, K. P.

doi:10.1016/0022-1910(59)90054-x

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“…A number of organic acids including citric, malic, succinic, lactic, and fumaric acids also were detected in our samples and have been reported previously from honeydew of aphids and mealybugs (Gray, 1952;Lamb, 1959;Hussain et al, 1974). These compounds may play a role in altering the pH of honeydew, which may result in some consumers being deterred or attracted to honeydew.…”

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“…They are instead venting some of it directly to the outside, by-passing most of the midgut (Foldi, 1990) where sucrase activity is maximal Table 6 List of known honeydew amino acids and carbohydrates. Data from this study and published papers Byrne et al, 2003;Douglas, 1998;Fischer and Shingleton, 2001;Grant and Beggs, 1989;Gray, 1952;Hendrix et al, 1992;Lamb, 1959;Völkl et al, 1999;Yao and Akimoto, 2001). Essential and non-essential amino acid status notation based on Douglas, 1998 andChapman, 1998 (Karley et al, 2005).…”

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Species-Specific Chemical Signatures in Scale Insect Honeydew

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The quantity and chemical composition of honeydew produced by scale insects may influence wider community structure, but little is known about the detailed chemical composition of the honeydew found in forest ecosystems. We used gas chromatography-mass spectrometry to examine the amino acid and carbohydrate composition of honeydew from three New Zealand communities. Low molecular weight carbohydrates (mono-, di-, and trisaccharides) were derivatized using a modified trimethylsilyl (TMS) method, and amino and non-amino organic acids were derivatized using methylchloroformate (MCF). These recently developed derivatization methods allowed us to detect atypical compounds such as sugar alcohols, fatty acids, and non-amino organic acids, in addition to the more routinely studied compounds such as sugars and amino acids. Some compounds could not be identified and may be novel. Multivariate analysis showed that honeydew from each scale insect species had a distinctive amino acid and carbohydrate signature. We suggest these chemical signatures may influence the types of consumers that are attracted to different honeydews and may explain the characteristic communities associated with these honeydews.

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“…Honeydew has been shown to be rich in carbohydrates and free amino acids (GRAY, 1952;AUCLAIR, 1958;MITTLER, 1958;LAMB, 1959). Honeydew has been shown to be rich in carbohydrates and free amino acids (GRAY, 1952;AUCLAIR, 1958;MITTLER, 1958;LAMB, 1959).…”

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Aspects of sorghum shootfly reproduction

Unnithan

1981

Int. J. Trop. Insect Sci.

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This paper includes a description of the internal reproductive system of the female sorghum shootfly. Athcrigona soccata, as well as studies on egg maturation and survival, and effects of mating and/or presence of the male on egg maturation, fecundity and fertility. The number of ovarioles per female ranged from 20 to 47. A. soccata exhibits autogeny, but carbohydrate is essential for egg production and survival. Nutritional deficiency led to a high incidence of oocyte resorption. A mixture of baker's yeast and sugar was a better adult food than brewer's yeast and glucose. Sorghum (cereal) aphid honeydew was a nutritious adult food. Shootflies provided with sorghum aphid honeydew showed an acceleration of vitellogenesis, a decrease in the frequency of oocyte resorption and a shortening of the preoviposition period. Egg maturation does not seem to be influenced directly by mating or by the presence of males. The continuous presence of the male also has no significant effect on fecundity. Shootfly females seem to mate only once and this single mating ensures fertilization of eggs laid even long after mating.

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“…Previous studies report that extensive metabolic processing, such as repeated transamination and nitrogen metabolic recycling, may limit trophic enrichment (Scrimgeour et al 1995;Macko et al 1986). Third, phloem feeders excrete nitrogenous waste as amino acids and ammonia (Lamb 1959;Dixon 1973Dixon , 1975Kennedy and Fosbrooke 1973), physiologies previously found to be associated with limited nitrogen enrichment (Steele and Daniel 1978;Minagawa and Wada 1984;Ponsard and Averbuch 1999).…”

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Isotopic enrichment in a phloem-feeding insect: influences of nutrient and water availability

Sagers

Goggin

2006

Oecologia

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The isotopic enrichment between an animal and its diet can vary among and within living systems, but the sources of variation are not yet fully understood. Some studies have found that diet quality or an animal's nutritional status can influence the degree of trophic enrichment, while others have dismissed nutrition as a contributing factor. We evaluated the effects of nutrient and water availability on carbon and nitrogen isotopic enrichment in a specialized plant-herbivore system. Aphids are largely sedentary and rely exclusively on nitrogen-poor phloem sap of their host for nutrition. We grew potato aphids [Macrosiphum euphorbiae (Aphididae)] on an accepted host, pumpkin [Cucurbita pepo L. (Cucurbitaceae)], in a glasshouse environment. Twelve pumpkin plants growing under high- and low-watering regimes were inoculated at 4 weeks of age with aphids. During the course of the experiment we collected leaves, phloem sap, aphids and honeydew (i.e., aphid exudates). We found no trophic enrichment between aphids and their phloem sap diet, but significant carbon enrichment of honeydew relative to aphids (2.5 per thousand) and phloem sap (2.1 per thousand). Honeydew was also enriched in nitrogen compared to the phloem sap (1.2 per thousand). Watering treatment had a substantial impact on trophic enrichment. Correlations among tissues, an indication of uniform trophic enrichment among samples, were significant only for the carbon isotopic composition, and then only for plants and aphids grown in the low-water treatment. Diet quality also influenced the degree of isotopic enrichment; trophic enrichment for both carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition increased as diet quality (C/N) declined. We conclude that the degree of trophic enrichment is variable due, in part, to diet quality, but that the scale of variation is small.

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Composition of the honeydew of the aphid Brevicoryne brassicae (L.) feeding on swedes (Brassica napobrassica DC.)

Cited by 59 publications

References 46 publications

Species-Specific Chemical Signatures in Scale Insect Honeydew

Species-Specific Chemical Signatures in Scale Insect Honeydew

Aspects of sorghum shootfly reproduction

Isotopic enrichment in a phloem-feeding insect: influences of nutrient and water availability

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