Nutritional balancing in fruit flies: Performance of wild adult females of Anastrepha obliqua (Diptera: Tephritidae) fed on single-food or food-pair treatments

Medeiros, Luanda; Zucoloto, Fernando Sérgio

doi:10.1016/j.jinsphys.2006.07.009

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“…This would suggest intake of mixed diets is regulated by sucrose. In general, this explanation for the observed intake pattern is consistent with work on C. capitata (Nestel et al 1985;Plácido-Silva et al 2006) and Anastrepha obliqua (Macquart) (Fontellas & Zucoloto 1999;CresoniPereira & Zucoloto 2001;Medeiros & Zucoloto 2006), and now has been extended to R. indifferens.…”

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Yeast Extract: Sucrose Ratio Effects on Egg Load, Survival, and Mortality Caused by Gf-120 in Western Cherry Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae)

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2010

Florida Entomologist

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Yeast Extract: Sucrose Ratio Effects on Egg Load, Survival, and Mortality Caused by Gf-120 in Western Cherry Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae)

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2010

Florida Entomologist

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“…Water was offered in small test tubes sealed with cotton. Yeast and sucrose diets were offered in separated blocks because previous studies have shown that this condition improves the female performance and the adult can ingest adequate proportions of each nutrient (Cresoni-Pereira and Zucoloto 2001, Medeiros andZucoloto 2006). The sucrose diet contained sucrose (Mallinckrodt, Hazelwood, MO), 11.0 g; agar (Difco, Detroit, MI), 2.5 g; Nipagin (antifungal) (Merck, Whitehouse Station, NJ), 1.5 ml; and distilled water, 100 ml.…”

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“…Diet ingestion is used by several authors as an important factor to determine insect performance. In A. obliqua females, for example, the production of eggs depends on the amount of proteins ingested in the adult phase; no protein reserve from the larval phase is used for egg production in this species (Braga and Zucoloto 1981, Cresoni-Pereira and Zucoloto 2001, Medeiros and Zucoloto 2006. When immature insects are maintained on inefÞcient diets, compensation in food ingestion during the adult phase may occur (Canato and Zucoloto 1998).…”

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Comparison of the Performances of Wild Anastrepha obliqua (Diptera: Tephritidae) Individuals Proceeding From Different Hosts

Medeiros-Santana¹,

Zucoloto²

2009

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

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Feeding during the insect immature phase is extremely important for an adequate performance in adult life. The nutritional value of the ingested diet during the immature phase directly affects the percentage of emergence, the duration of the immature phase, and the size of the emerging adults. The objectives of this study were to compare the performance of adult Anastrepha obliqua (Macquart) (Diptera: Tephritidae) females, the pupae per kg of fruit, and the percentage of emergence of flies that spent the larval phase in three fruit species (Mangifera indica L., Spondias lutea L., and S. venulosa L.), taking into account the amount of nutrients in the fruit. Weekly collections were carried out during the fructification period of the hosts. Adult size, longevity, egg production, ingestion of artificial diets by adult females, number of pupae per fruit and pupae per kg of fruit, and percentage of adult emergence were determined. The results showed that S. venulosa was the main A. obliqua host and the most infested among the studied fruit. The adult performance did not vary among the studied hosts; however, the percentage of emergence did. The amount of nutrients in the fruit did not affect the parameters that were analyzed. It is possible that the physical characteristics of the fruit were more important to wild A. obliqua females in their choice for an oviposition site than the amount of nutrients per se. Furthermore, the fruit surface/volume ratio also was involved in the infestation index.

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“…The West Indian fruit fly, Anastrepha obliqua (Macquart), is an anautogenous species; that is, females need a protein source in the adult phase to mature their oocytes (Braga & Zucoloto ). Diets with higher protein concentration increase the egg production (Cresoni‐Pereira & Zucoloto ; Medeiros & Zucoloto ). In nature, the major foods used by adult fruit flies are fruit juices, extrafloral glandular secretions, honeydew and nectar as main sources of carbohydrates, and pollen, bird excrement and bacteria as main sources of protein (Bateman ; Robacker ; Manrakhan & Luz ).…”

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“…Nutrition is the main factor involved in insect egg production, longevity and sexual receptivity (Barton Browne et al. ; Medeiros & Zucoloto ). Sexual receptivity can be stimulated or inhibited by diet, stage of ovarian development or titer of endogenous hormones (Ringo ).…”

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Sexual receptivity of Anastrepha obliqua (Diptera: Tephritidae) wild females affected by nutrition and egg load

Medeiros-Santana

Zucoloto

2016

Entomological Science

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The influence of feeding, egg load and stage of ovarian development on the sexual receptivity of some insect species has been reported. This work investigated the effects of different brewer's yeast concentrations in the diet offered to females of West Indian fruit fly, Anastrepha obliqua, on their sexual receptivity. Wild females were fed on artificial diets containing 2.0 g brewer's yeast per 100 mL of water (low‐yeast diet, LY diet), 6.5 g yeast per 100 mL of water (high‐yeast diet, HY diet) or only sucrose (Su diet) and then placed with the males. Female sexual receptivity tests were carried out in acrylic boxes in the laboratory under controlled conditions (temperature, humidity and light). Females fed on the HY diet were more sexually receptive to male courtship than the other females. Additionally, when fed on the same diet (HY diet), those females with higher egg load were more sexually receptive. The data suggest that the ingestion of a protein source is essential for increasing sexual receptivity and that egg load is the most important factor affecting sexual receptivity of A. obliqua females.

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Nutritional balancing in fruit flies: Performance of wild adult females of Anastrepha obliqua (Diptera: Tephritidae) fed on single-food or food-pair treatments

Cited by 5 publications

References 20 publications

Yeast Extract: Sucrose Ratio Effects on Egg Load, Survival, and Mortality Caused by Gf-120 in Western Cherry Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae)

Yeast Extract: Sucrose Ratio Effects on Egg Load, Survival, and Mortality Caused by Gf-120 in Western Cherry Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae)

Comparison of the Performances of Wild Anastrepha obliqua (Diptera: Tephritidae) Individuals Proceeding From Different Hosts

Sexual receptivity of Anastrepha obliqua (Diptera: Tephritidae) wild females affected by nutrition and egg load

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