Influence of diet upon the composition of pheromone volatiles inGalleria mellonella (greater wax moth) males

Ponomarev, V. L.; Vendilo, N. V.; Pletnev, V. A.; Lebedeva, K. V.; Mel'nikov, N. N.

doi:10.1002/(sici)1520-6327(1997)36:2<129::aid-arch5>3.0.co;2-q

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“…It may be that females add nutrients to eggs as they become available, and oocyte development cannot be completed until sufficient protein is added so that eggs (and the potential offspring created from them) are viable and healthy. Another possible explanation for the difference in male attraction during the current experiment is that diet quality has a direct effect on pheromone composition, so that individuals fed on high quality diets produce high quality pheromones (Ponomarev et al 1997, Ming and Lewis 2010). Direct measurement of pheromone titres using gas chromatography and mass spectrometry are required to completely explain how female body condition, female fecundity and egg composition interact to affect pheromone production and subsequent male response to these chemical cues in praying mantids.…”

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Macronutrient intake affects reproduction of a predatory insect

Barry

Wilder

2012

Oikos

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Prey quality has previously been shown to affect the growth and reproduction of predatory arthropods, however relatively little is known about the specific nutrients responsible for these effects. We tested if the macronutrient content (i.e. lipid and protein) of live prey affected mate attraction, reproductive behavior, egg production and nutrient reserves of adult female praying mantids, Pseudomantis albofimbriata. Females on a high‐protein diet produced more than twice as many eggs as females on a high‐lipid diet despite being fed the same overall biomass of prey. Furthermore, the lipid and protein composition of eggs and the female body was directly related to the diet that females were fed (i.e. high lipid content on the high‐lipid diet). Even more striking was the effect of diet treatment on the number of males attracted to females – only one male was attracted to females on the high‐lipid treatment and 56 males were attracted to females on the high‐protein treatment. Although it is not unexpected that females with more eggs would attract more males, the extreme nature of this difference is certainly surprising because previous studies have shown that females with only a couple of eggs can attract multiple males. Hence, our results suggest that female pheromone production may be affected by the quality/nutritional composition of eggs rather than simply the number of eggs. We found no significant difference in any of the other behaviours measured during mating trials, including the frequency of sexual cannibalism. The positive effects of prey protein content on mate attraction and egg production suggest that praying mantids might be expected to choose more protein‐biased prey in nature or, if prey choice is limited, to have higher reproductive output or population growth in communities dominated by protein‐rich prey.

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Macronutrient intake affects reproduction of a predatory insect

Barry

Wilder

2012

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“…Component of pheromone secretion of male greater wax moth, Galleria mellonella (L.)(Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) (Ponomarev et al 1997). Component of alarm system of Leptoglossus zonatus (Leal et al 1994b).…”

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A survey of antennal responses by five species of coniferophagous bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) to bark volatiles of six species of angiosperm trees

Huber¹,

Gries²,

Borden³

et al. 2000

Chemoecology

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“…Jorjão et al (16) showed that a nutritionally rich and varied diet, made of combinations of brown sugar, glycerol, powder milk, yeast extract, wheat flour, wheat bran, wheat germ, and beeswax blocks, accelerated G. mellonella ’s life cycle, increased larval weight, and stimulated the immune system by increasing hemolymph volume and hemocyte concentration. The influence of artificial diets on larval development is speculated to be, in part, related to alteration of the pheromone volatiles of G. mellonella , since some diet compositions can decrease some of these components produced by male insects (47).…”

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Overview of rearing and testing conditions and a guide for optimizing Galleria mellonella breeding and use in the laboratory for scientific purposes

Pereira

Rossi

2020

APMIS

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Pereira MF, Rossi CC. Overview of rearing and testing conditions and a guide for optimizing Galleria mellonella breeding and use in the laboratory for scientific purposes. APMIS 2020; 128: 607-620. The greater wax moth Galleria mellonella is an increasingly popular and consolidated alternative infection model to assess microbial virulence and the effectiveness of antimicrobial compounds. The lack of G. mellonella suppliers aiming at scientific purposes and a lack of well-established protocols for raising and testing these animals may impact results and reproducibility between different laboratories. In this review, we discuss the state of the art of rearing the larvae in situ, providing an overview of breeding and testing conditions commonly used and their influence on larval health and experiments results, from setting up the environment, providing the ideal diet, understanding the effects of pretreatments, choosing the best testing conditions, to exploring the most from the results obtained. Meanwhile, we guide the reader through the most practical ways of dealing with G. mellonella to achieve successful experiments.

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Influence of diet upon the composition of pheromone volatiles inGalleria mellonella (greater wax moth) males

Cited by 5 publications

References 9 publications

Macronutrient intake affects reproduction of a predatory insect

Macronutrient intake affects reproduction of a predatory insect

A survey of antennal responses by five species of coniferophagous bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) to bark volatiles of six species of angiosperm trees

Overview of rearing and testing conditions and a guide for optimizing Galleria mellonella breeding and use in the laboratory for scientific purposes

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