The influence of adult diet and age on lipid reserves in the tropical fruit fly Anastrepha serpentina (Diptera: Tephritidae)

Jácome, Isabel; Aluja, Martı́n; Liedo, Pablo; Nestel, David

doi:10.1016/0022-1910(95)00067-5

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“…However, and in contrast to our result, lipids in A. serpentina maintained on a food regime with no protein sources do not oscillate and steadily decline (Jacome et al, 1995). While in the case of A. serpentina lipid trends on the different diets were suggested to be linked to egg production waves, the results of the present study do not allow such a straightforward conclusion.…”

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confidence: 85%

“…Total lipids patterns in both sexes of Anastrepha serpentina, which were investigated during the early stages of adult life, were shown to synchronously fluctuate when flies are fed with a protein food source (Jacome et al, 1995). However, and in contrast to our result, lipids in A. serpentina maintained on a food regime with no protein sources do not oscillate and steadily decline (Jacome et al, 1995).…”

Section: November 2005contrasting

confidence: 79%

“…As expected for Tephritidae fruit flies (see for example, Webster et al, 1979;Jacome et al, 1995;Carey et al, 1998Carey et al, , 2002, females feeding on a full adult diet mix, which includes protein hydrolyzate, produced severalfold more eggs than females fed on sucrose only. Moreover and as previously shown (Carey et al, 2002), protein-fed female medflies were able to maintain egg production throughout most of their adult life, with an intensive egg-laying stage early in adult life, which declined with age.…”

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“…Thus, we have no information on the immediate metabolic changes related to lipids and protein occurring before death of the flies. However, previous studies have shown that starved flies sharply drop their total lipid contents, and that this drop seems to correlate with their survival capacity (Nestel et al, 1985;Jacome et al, 1995). Moreover, Tower (1996) suggested that the capacity of metabolic reserves in Drosophila flies seems to constrain the lifespan of the flies.…”

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Trends in lipid and protein contents during medfly aging: An harmonic path to death

Nestel

Papadopoulos

Liedo

et al. 2005

Arch. Insect Biochem. Physiol.

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Survival and egg-laying trends were investigated in Mediterranean fruit flies (Ceratitis capitata) adults maintained on a sucrose-only diet, or on a full diet that consisted of a 3:1 sucrose and yeast hydrolizate mixture. In addition, we followed the total individual lipid and protein contents of aging flies in a cohort. Survival trends and life expectancy parameters at eclosion for males and females on full diet and for males on sucrose only were very similar. In contrast, the mortality of females on sucrose only was high early in life, but then slowed down. Egg-laying was ten times greater in female flies on full diet than in flies on sucrose only. Lipid contents in males and females on both types of diets were very similar, and harmonically oscillated with an amplitude of approximately 10 days. Successive crests of lipids tended to be smaller with the ageing of the cohort, and lipids contents significantly dropped at very advanced ages and close to the maximal age of the whole cohort. Protein contents of flies maintained on a full diet were high and stayed at a constant level throughout the entire life of the cohort. Protein levels in males and females on sucrose only dropped drastically during the first days of adult life, but then stayed stable at a low level until advanced ages. We propose that the synchronous rhythmic oscillation in lipid contents of male and female flies seems to be independently set by an internal clock. Protein reserves are allocated according to the access to protein food sources and these levels of protein are closely associated to egg production and mortality. Our results are discussed in view of resource allocation during reproduction and senescence.

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Trends in lipid and protein contents during medfly aging: An harmonic path to death

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“…There are examples of some species varieties for which food hardness has reduced feeding or increased time spent in ingestion (BERNAYS, 1985). The non compensation with solid diets may also be related to metabolic costs involved in their utilization (JACOME et al, 1995), since the energy obtained from this kind of food does not compensate the energy spent in its ingestion and digestion; in the same way, it is not compensatory for the individual to ingest great quantities of low protein diets: the energy consumption for ingestion and digestion of small quantities of highly concentrated diets is the same as for large amounts of diets with low concentration. HENDRICHS et al (1993) have also found that R. pomonella fed on solid diets liquefy the food with salivary secretion.…”

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Influence of quantities of brewer yeast on the performance of Anastrepha obliqua wild females (Diptera, Tephritidae)

Cresoni-Pereira

Zucoloto

2001

Iheringia, Sér. Zool.

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Using artificial solid diets, experiments were performed with Anastrepha obliqua (Macquart, 1835) wild females in order to verify the influence of different quantities of brewer yeast on the performance and compensation behavior to unbalanced diets ingestion. The observed parameters were egg production, ingestion, diet efficiency and survival in the reproductive phase. Results indicated that there was no compensatory ingestion to different quantities of yeast and that the diet with 12.5g of yeast provided the best performance. The absence of compensatory ingestion is discussed based on the yeast phagostimulation and on the costs involved in solid diets ingestion. The relation between the analyzed parameters and the protein quantities in the diet were discussed.

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Raspberry ketone feeding makes Queensland fruit fly, Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt), more vulnerable to desiccation but not starvation

Akter

Rempoulakis

Fanson

et al. 2023

Pest Management Science

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BackgroundQueensland fruit fly (Qfly) males exhibit accelerated sexual maturation when their diet is supplemented with raspberry ketone (RK) for 48 h following emergence, which is beneficial for sterile insect technique operation. The present study tests whether RK supplementation makes Qfly more vulnerable to starvation or desiccation.ResultsFlies were fed for 48 h with a yeast hydrolysate and sugar diet (1:3) that contained 0% RK (control), 1.25% RK (low dose) or 5% RK (high dose) to test subsequent vulnerability to starvation and desiccation. RK feeding decreased body weight and water content in males and increased lipid levels in both sexes before exposure to any stress treatment. Under nutritional stress, flies fed the low RK dose, but not the high RK dose, had higher survival than controls. Under desiccation stress, flies fed both the low and high RK doses had lower survival than the controls. Body weight, water content and lipid reserves at death were all affected by RK dose when under nutritional stress, but not when under desiccation stress. In the absence of stress, body weight at death was higher than controls in flies provided with the high RK dose and lipids were lower than controls in flies provided with the low RK dose.ConclusionFeeding with RK makes Qflies more vulnerable to desiccation but not starvation. In most conditions, it is expected that the disadvantage of increased desiccation vulnerability would be outweighed by the benefits of accelerated sexual maturation in RK‐fed young adult Qflies. © 2023 The Authors. Pest Management Science published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society of Chemical Industry.

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The influence of adult diet and age on lipid reserves in the tropical fruit fly Anastrepha serpentina (Diptera: Tephritidae)

Cited by 71 publications

References 24 publications

Trends in lipid and protein contents during medfly aging: An harmonic path to death

Trends in lipid and protein contents during medfly aging: An harmonic path to death

Influence of quantities of brewer yeast on the performance of Anastrepha obliqua wild females (Diptera, Tephritidae)

Raspberry ketone feeding makes Queensland fruit fly, Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt), more vulnerable to desiccation but not starvation

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