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Host plant affects the sexual attractiveness of the female white-spotted longicorn beetle, Anoplophora malasiaca
Anoplophora malasiaca (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) is a serious pest that destroys various landscape and crop trees in Japan. We evaluated the precopulatory responses of three different A. malasiaca populations collected from mandarin orange, willow and blueberry trees. Most of the males accepted mate...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4944169/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27412452 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep29526 |
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author | Yasui, Hiroe Fujiwara-Tsujii, Nao |
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description | Anoplophora malasiaca (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) is a serious pest that destroys various landscape and crop trees in Japan. We evaluated the precopulatory responses of three different A. malasiaca populations collected from mandarin orange, willow and blueberry trees. Most of the males accepted mates from within the same host plant population as well as females from the willow and blueberry populations. However, significant number of males from the blueberry and willow populations rejected females from the mandarin orange population immediately after touching them with their antennae. Because all three of the female populations produced contact sex pheromones on their elytra, the females of the mandarin orange population were predicted to possess extra chemicals that repelled the males of the other two populations. β-Elemene was identified as a key component that was only found in mandarin orange-fed females and induced a rejection response in willow-fed males. Our results represent the first example of a female-acquired repellent against conspecific males of different host plant populations, indicating that the host plant greatly affects the female’s sexual attractiveness. |
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spelling | pubmed-49441692016-07-26 Host plant affects the sexual attractiveness of the female white-spotted longicorn beetle, Anoplophora malasiaca Yasui, Hiroe Fujiwara-Tsujii, Nao Sci Rep Article Anoplophora malasiaca (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) is a serious pest that destroys various landscape and crop trees in Japan. We evaluated the precopulatory responses of three different A. malasiaca populations collected from mandarin orange, willow and blueberry trees. Most of the males accepted mates from within the same host plant population as well as females from the willow and blueberry populations. However, significant number of males from the blueberry and willow populations rejected females from the mandarin orange population immediately after touching them with their antennae. Because all three of the female populations produced contact sex pheromones on their elytra, the females of the mandarin orange population were predicted to possess extra chemicals that repelled the males of the other two populations. β-Elemene was identified as a key component that was only found in mandarin orange-fed females and induced a rejection response in willow-fed males. Our results represent the first example of a female-acquired repellent against conspecific males of different host plant populations, indicating that the host plant greatly affects the female’s sexual attractiveness. Nature Publishing Group 2016-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4944169/ /pubmed/27412452 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep29526 Text en Copyright © 2016, Macmillan Publishers Limited http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Article Yasui, Hiroe Fujiwara-Tsujii, Nao Host plant affects the sexual attractiveness of the female white-spotted longicorn beetle, Anoplophora malasiaca |
title | Host plant affects the sexual attractiveness of the female white-spotted longicorn beetle, Anoplophora malasiaca |
title_full | Host plant affects the sexual attractiveness of the female white-spotted longicorn beetle, Anoplophora malasiaca |
title_fullStr | Host plant affects the sexual attractiveness of the female white-spotted longicorn beetle, Anoplophora malasiaca |
title_full_unstemmed | Host plant affects the sexual attractiveness of the female white-spotted longicorn beetle, Anoplophora malasiaca |
title_short | Host plant affects the sexual attractiveness of the female white-spotted longicorn beetle, Anoplophora malasiaca |
title_sort | host plant affects the sexual attractiveness of the female white-spotted longicorn beetle, anoplophora malasiaca |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4944169/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27412452 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep29526 |
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