Host plant influence on the mating success of male Mediterranean fruit flies: variable effects within and between individual plants

Shelly, Todd E.; Villalobos, Ethel M.

doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.08.029

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“…melanogaster (Dukas and Mooers, 2003) but differs with the findings in another tephritid, Ceratitis capitata (Shelly and Villalobos, 2004;. In the case of D. melanogaster, males exposed to coloured pieces of pipe did not acquire any behavioural advantage.…”

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“…Also, those males that have contact with the foliage, fruit or bark of orange or guava trees are sexually more competitive than those males exposed to orange or guava odours or to the foliage of fiddlewood trees and apples (Papadoupolos et al, 2001;Shelly and Villalobos, 2004;. However, exposing flies to guava branches during colonisation did not improve the flies' ability to maintain their wild behavioural repertoire after five generations of laboratory culture (Leppla et al, 1983).…”

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Enriching early adult environment affects the copulation behaviour of a tephritid fly

Dı́az-Fleischer

Arredondo²,

Aluja

2009

Journal of Experimental Biology

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SUMMARYEarly adult experiences in enriched environments favours animal brain and behavioural development ultimately resulting in an increased fitness. However, measuring the effect of environmental enrichment in animal behaviour in nature is often a complicated task, considering the complexity of the natural environment. We expanded previous studies to evaluate how early experience in an enriched environment affects copulation behaviour when animals are confronted with a complex semi-natural environment. Anastrepha ludens flies are an ideal model system for studying these effects because their natural habitats differ significantly from the cage environments in which these flies are reared for biological control purposes. For example, in the field, males form leks of up to six individuals. Each male defends a territory represented by a tree leaf whereas in rearing cages, territories are completely reduced because of the high population density. In a series of three experiments, we observed that male density represented the most influential stimulus for A. ludens male copulation success. Males that experienced lower densities in early adulthood obtained the highest proportion of copulations. By contrast, female copulation behaviour was not altered by female density. However, exposure to natural or artificial leaves in cages in which flies were kept until tested influenced female copulation behaviour. Females that were exposed to enriched environments exhibited a shorter latency to mate and shorter copulation durations with males than females reared in poor environments. We discuss the influence of early experience on male copulation success and female-mating choosiness.

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Enriching early adult environment affects the copulation behaviour of a tephritid fly

Dı́az-Fleischer

Arredondo²,

Aluja

2009

Journal of Experimental Biology

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“…This phenomenon could involve visual and chemical cues e.g. the secretion and perception of aggregation pheromone by insects and other plant-borne compounds that may affect the spatial distribution of insect leks in the environment (Iwahashi and Majima, 1986;Shelly and Kaneshiro, 1991;Shelly and Villalobos, 2004).…”

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Female sexual response to male rectal volatile constituents in the fruit fly, Bactrocera carambolae (Diptera: Tephritidae)

Wee

Tan

2005

Appl. Entomol. Zool.

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“…During the last decades, several studies have demonstrated a successful implementation of semiochemicals in the effective control of some tephritid species using the host marking pheromone (HMP), host plant kairomones, and allomones Howse 1989;Nigg et al 1994;Shelly and Villalobos 2004). However, to date, no approach has been undertaken in A. fraterculus, using male sex pheromones as a strategy for pest control.…”

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Identification of male-borne attractants in Anastrepha fraterculus (Diptera: Tephritidae)

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The South American fruit fly is one of the most destructive polyphagous pests in South America. In this species, males gathered in aggregations emit volatiles that attract females; however, the compounds involved in this task remain unknown. In this study, we investigated the chemical composition of the volatile blend emitted by males aiming to identify the specific compounds within this blend that elicit behavioral responses in conspecific females. For this purpose, we performed chemical and electrophysiological analyses and bioassays. The chemical analyses revealed the presence of 29 compounds in headspace samples of A. fraterculus males, of which six compounds, i.e. a-pinene, limonene, (Z)-3-nonen-1-ol, (E,Z)-3,6-nonadien-1-ol, a-farnesene and (S,S)-(-)-epianastrephin, triggered antennal depolarization in conspecific females. In laboratory bioassays, five out of eight synthetic compounds tested individually elicited more behavioral responses than a hexane control, but only the synthetic mixture composed of all EAD-active compounds triggered behavioral responses in females similar to the responses to the headspace samples of conspecific males. In an experiment under semi-natural conditions, the synthetic mixture was more attractive to females than a hexane control and equally attractive to headspace extracts of males. This study reports the identification of male volatile compounds that act as attractant for A. fraterculus females, which may be useful for the control of this pest in infested orchards.

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Host plant influence on the mating success of male Mediterranean fruit flies: variable effects within and between individual plants

Cited by 44 publications

References 49 publications

Enriching early adult environment affects the copulation behaviour of a tephritid fly

Enriching early adult environment affects the copulation behaviour of a tephritid fly

Female sexual response to male rectal volatile constituents in the fruit fly, Bactrocera carambolae (Diptera: Tephritidae)

Identification of male-borne attractants in Anastrepha fraterculus (Diptera: Tephritidae)

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