Influence of Male Diet on Male Mating Success and Longevity and Female Remating in the Mediterranean Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Under Laboratory Conditions

Shelly, Todd E.; Kennelly, Susan

doi:10.1653/0015-4040(2002)085[0572:iomdom]2.0.co;2

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“…An additional 10 Ð20 ßies were prepared per group as "extras" to replace any dead or weak individuals at the time of release. The latter tests also necessitated marking of one of the two released groups of males (randomized) for the purpose of subsequent identiÞcation, which was accomplished by chilling and applying a small dot of enamel paint to the mesonotum ϳ24 h before testing, a routinely used procedure from which males recover quickly without any detectable effect on their subsequent behavior (Shelly and Kennelly 2002).…”

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“…Shelly et al (2001) further determined that females were more attracted to aggregations of protein-fed males than those of protein-deprived males in a test of long-distance attraction. However, the apparent association between adult diet and reproductive success remains somewhat unclear, because other studies have not found any mating advantage for protein-fed over sugar-fed laboratory males (Shelly andKennelly 2002, Shelly andMcInnis 2003). Furthermore, when extending their investigation to sterile ßies, observed a dietrelated trade-off between male mating success and survival , Jácome et al 1999, with prior protein-fed sterile males suffering very high mortality when starved.…”

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Effect of Probiotic Adult Diets on Fitness Components of Sterile Male Mediterranean Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) Under Laboratory and Field Cage Conditions

Niyazi

Lauzon

Shelly

2004

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The aim of the current study was to investigate the effect of probiotic adult diets, i.e., adult diets containing viable symbiotic intestinal bacteria, on the pheromone-calling activity, mating success, life expectancy, and survival of mass-reared male Mediterranean fruit flies, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), as an avenue for improving the field performance of sterile males in release programs to eradicate, suppress, or prevent spread of wild populations. The effect of inoculation of two standard adult diets (sugar-yeast granulate [SY] and sugar agar [s]) and two experimental formulations (yeast-reduced granulate [Sy] and yeast-enhanced sugar agar [sy]) with Enterobacter agglomerans and Klebsiella pneumoniae (typically occurring in the gut of wild flies) on the different fitness components was assessed in the laboratory and on field-caged host trees. We found that, in the laboratory, males reared on the probiotic yeast-enhanced agar, sy, had a significant mating advantage over competitors fed the standard s agar (probiotic and control) or noninoculated sy agar; no effect of probiotic enrichment (or lowering the yeast content) was found with the granular diets. Mating test results obtained in the field were inconsistent with laboratory data in that no differences in the numbers of matings were observed between males reared on any of the probiotic and control agar diets (or the SY granulate), whereas males feeding on the probiotic modified granulate, Sy, scored significantly more matings than their control competitors. The pheromone-calling activity of males maintained on the granular diets was not affected by probiotic enrichment on any of the seven observation days. Agar-fed males, however, "called" more frequently on days 6 and 7 (but not on days 1-5) when their diet contained the probiotic load. Laboratory survival of granulate-fed males was found to be significantly prolonged with probiotic inoculation and lowering the yeast content of the standard SY granulate (but not with probiotic inoculation of sy). Similarly, males reared on the probiotic and control modified agars (sy) survived significantly longer than those feeding on the standard s agars (inoculated and control). Again, the results obtained in the field were inconsistent, because no differences between treated and control males were found for any of the diets. The findings are discussed in the light of other published studies on adult nutrition and behavioral ecology in C. capitata.

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Effect of Probiotic Adult Diets on Fitness Components of Sterile Male Mediterranean Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) Under Laboratory and Field Cage Conditions

Niyazi

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Shelly

2004

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“…Due to its commercial relevance, many studies focused on the development and improvement of different control strategies. Some of them are based on the use of biological competitors (Headrick and Goeden 1996) or sterile adults, as in the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT, Shelly and Kennelly 2002;Shelly and McInnis 2003;Shelly 2005), others on chemicals, such as the mass trapping (Jang et al 1989(Jang et al , 1994Heath et al 1991;Cossè et al 1995;Katsoyannos et al 1997;Papadopoulos et al 2001). Both SIT and mass trapping are more effective when they involve the activation of the olfactory system, since odorants can be used as efficient species-specific attractants.…”

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Morphological characterization of the antennal lobes in the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata

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The medfly Ceratitis capitata is one of the most important pests for horticulture worldwide. The knowledge about anatomy and function of the medfly olfactory system is still limited. The first brain structure to process olfactory information in insects is the antennal lobe (AL), which is composed of its functional and morphological units, the olfactory glomeruli. Here, we present a morphological three-dimensional reconstruction of AL glomeruli in adult brains. We used unilateral antennal backfills of olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) with neural tracers, revealing the AL structure. We recorded confocal stacks acquired from whole-mount specimens, and analyzed them with the software AMIRA. The ALs in C. capitata are organized in glomeruli which are more tightly packed in the anterior part than the posterior one. Axons of ORNs bilaterally connect the ALs through a commissure between the two ALs. This commissure is formed by several distinct fascicles. Contralateral dye transfer suggests the presence of gap junctions connecting ORNs from both antennae. There was no statistical difference between the average volumes of female ALs (204,166 ± 12,554 μm(3)) and of male ALs (190,287 ± 11,823 μm(3)). In most specimens, we counted 53 glomeruli in each AL, seven of which were sexually dimorphic in size

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“…In another study, Muller et al (1997) reported that the mortality rates of C. capitata decreased when the adults were fed on protein diets. Others authors do not show any strict link between the amount of protein ingestion in their adult phase and longevity (Shelly and Kennelly, 2002;Shelly and McInnis, 2003). Despite the fact that longevity can be an important parameter in evaluating the quality of any diet (Chang et al, 2001), the most important considerations for large scale commercial producers are that the females produce large numbers of viable eggs near the peak phase of ovipositioning and that the males are active and able perform copulation so that there will be no drop in fertility.…”

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Mass-rearing of Mediterranean fruit fly using low-cost yeast products produced in Brazil

Neto¹,

Santos²,

Dias³

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Sci. agric. (Piracicaba, Braz.)

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Ceratitis capitata is one of the most important pests of fruits for exportation, and Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) has been the most efficient and environmental friendly technique used to control fruit fly populations around the world. A key goal in achieving a successful SIT program is a mass rearing system producing high quality insects at low cost. Providing adults with an artificial diet containing hydrolysed protein has been the major obstacle for bio-production facilities in Brazil, because it is expensive and has to be imported. Two other commercial prod-

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Influence of Male Diet on Male Mating Success and Longevity and Female Remating in the Mediterranean Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Under Laboratory Conditions

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Effect of Probiotic Adult Diets on Fitness Components of Sterile Male Mediterranean Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) Under Laboratory and Field Cage Conditions

Effect of Probiotic Adult Diets on Fitness Components of Sterile Male Mediterranean Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) Under Laboratory and Field Cage Conditions

Morphological characterization of the antennal lobes in the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata

Mass-rearing of Mediterranean fruit fly using low-cost yeast products produced in Brazil

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