Cargando…
Drosophila suzukii energetic pathways are differently modulated by nutritional geometry in males and females
As a polyphagous pest, Drosophila suzukii has a variety of host fruits available for feeding and oviposition, but how the nutritional geometry of different hosts influences its metabolism is still poorly understood. This work aimed to evaluate how D. suzukii metabolic and transcriptional pathways ar...
Autores principales: | , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Nature Publishing Group UK
2022
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9729594/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36476948 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25509-3 |
_version_ | 1784845503746277376 |
---|---|
author | Sario, Sara Mendes, Rafael J. Gonçalves, Fátima Torres, Laura Santos, Conceição |
author_facet | Sario, Sara Mendes, Rafael J. Gonçalves, Fátima Torres, Laura Santos, Conceição |
author_sort | Sario, Sara |
collection | PubMed |
description | As a polyphagous pest, Drosophila suzukii has a variety of host fruits available for feeding and oviposition, but how the nutritional geometry of different hosts influences its metabolism is still poorly understood. This work aimed to evaluate how D. suzukii metabolic and transcriptional pathways are influenced by feeding on different host fruits, and how sex influences these responses. Adult flies were allowed to feed on five different fruit-based media. Lipids, glucose, glycogen, and energy pathways-associated gene expression, were quantified. Females showed an energetic metabolism easily adaptable to the food’s nutritional characteristics; in contrast, males’ energetic metabolism was particularly influenced by food, predominantly those fed on raspberry media who showed changes in glucose levels and in the expression of genes associated with metabolic pathways, suggesting activation of gluconeogenesis and trehaloneogenesis as a result of nutritional deficiency. Here we present novel insight into how D. suzukii’s energetic pathways are modulated depending on fruits’ nutritional geometry and sex. While the females showed high adaptability in their energetic metabolism to the diet, males were more feeding-sensitive. These findings might be used not only to control this pest population but to better advise producers to invest in less suitable fruits based on the hosts’ nutritional geometry. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-9729594 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2022 |
publisher | Nature Publishing Group UK |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-97295942022-12-09 Drosophila suzukii energetic pathways are differently modulated by nutritional geometry in males and females Sario, Sara Mendes, Rafael J. Gonçalves, Fátima Torres, Laura Santos, Conceição Sci Rep Article As a polyphagous pest, Drosophila suzukii has a variety of host fruits available for feeding and oviposition, but how the nutritional geometry of different hosts influences its metabolism is still poorly understood. This work aimed to evaluate how D. suzukii metabolic and transcriptional pathways are influenced by feeding on different host fruits, and how sex influences these responses. Adult flies were allowed to feed on five different fruit-based media. Lipids, glucose, glycogen, and energy pathways-associated gene expression, were quantified. Females showed an energetic metabolism easily adaptable to the food’s nutritional characteristics; in contrast, males’ energetic metabolism was particularly influenced by food, predominantly those fed on raspberry media who showed changes in glucose levels and in the expression of genes associated with metabolic pathways, suggesting activation of gluconeogenesis and trehaloneogenesis as a result of nutritional deficiency. Here we present novel insight into how D. suzukii’s energetic pathways are modulated depending on fruits’ nutritional geometry and sex. While the females showed high adaptability in their energetic metabolism to the diet, males were more feeding-sensitive. These findings might be used not only to control this pest population but to better advise producers to invest in less suitable fruits based on the hosts’ nutritional geometry. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9729594/ /pubmed/36476948 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25509-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Sario, Sara Mendes, Rafael J. Gonçalves, Fátima Torres, Laura Santos, Conceição Drosophila suzukii energetic pathways are differently modulated by nutritional geometry in males and females |
title | Drosophila suzukii energetic pathways are differently modulated by nutritional geometry in males and females |
title_full | Drosophila suzukii energetic pathways are differently modulated by nutritional geometry in males and females |
title_fullStr | Drosophila suzukii energetic pathways are differently modulated by nutritional geometry in males and females |
title_full_unstemmed | Drosophila suzukii energetic pathways are differently modulated by nutritional geometry in males and females |
title_short | Drosophila suzukii energetic pathways are differently modulated by nutritional geometry in males and females |
title_sort | drosophila suzukii energetic pathways are differently modulated by nutritional geometry in males and females |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9729594/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36476948 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25509-3 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT sariosara drosophilasuzukiienergeticpathwaysaredifferentlymodulatedbynutritionalgeometryinmalesandfemales AT mendesrafaelj drosophilasuzukiienergeticpathwaysaredifferentlymodulatedbynutritionalgeometryinmalesandfemales AT goncalvesfatima drosophilasuzukiienergeticpathwaysaredifferentlymodulatedbynutritionalgeometryinmalesandfemales AT torreslaura drosophilasuzukiienergeticpathwaysaredifferentlymodulatedbynutritionalgeometryinmalesandfemales AT santosconceicao drosophilasuzukiienergeticpathwaysaredifferentlymodulatedbynutritionalgeometryinmalesandfemales |