The role of carotenoids and their derivatives in mediating interactions between insects and their environment

Heath, Jeremy J.; Cipollini, Don; Stireman, John O.

doi:10.1007/s11829-012-9239-7

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“…We found that Nephila's golden silk contains carotenoids. While carotenoids certainly produce yellow coloration, they also degrade naturally through oxidative cleavage or by carotenoid cleavage dioxygenases to produce volatile apocarotenoids (Heath et al, 2012). Apocarotenoids are associated with the scents of flowers and ripe fruits and the pheromones of Hymenoptera/Lepidoptera; hence, they might attract insects to the This morphology is similar to melanosomes found in extant lizard, turtle and crocodilian skin (Li et al, 2014).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 94%

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Spiders have rich pigmentary and structural colour palettes

Hsiung

Justyn

Blackledge

et al. 2017

Journal of Experimental Biology

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Elucidating the mechanisms of colour production in organisms is important for understanding how selection acts upon a variety of behaviours. Spiders provide many spectacular examples of colours used in courtship, predation, defence and thermoregulation, but are thought to lack many types of pigments common in other animals. Ommochromes, bilins and eumelanin have been identified in spiders, but not carotenoids or melanosomes. Here, we combined optical microscopy, refractive index matching, confocal Raman microspectroscopy and electron microscopy to investigate the basis of several types of colourful patches in spiders. We obtained four major results. First, we show that spiders use carotenoids to produce yellow, suggesting that such colours may be used for conditiondependent courtship signalling. Second, we established the Raman signature spectrum for ommochromes, facilitating the identification of ommochromes in a variety of organisms in the future. Third, we describe a potential new pigmentary-structural colour interaction that is unusual because of the use of long wavelength structural colour in combination with a slightly shorter wavelength pigment in the production of red. Finally, we present the first evidence for the presence of melanosomes in arthropods, using both scanning and transmission electron microscopy, overturning the assumption that melanosomes are a synapomorphy of vertebrates. Our research shows that spiders have a much richer colour production palette than previously thought, and this has implications for colour diversification and function in spiders and other arthropods.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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“…webs as olfactory cues (Heath et al, 2012). While speculative, carotenoid cleavage dioxygenases are active under high light (Scherzinger and Al-Babili, 2008), and this could explain why Nephila sometimes weave golden webs under high light intensity environments, but 'normal' white webs in dim environments (Craig et al, 1996).…”

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Spiders have rich pigmentary and structural colour palettes

Hsiung

Justyn

Blackledge

et al. 2017

Journal of Experimental Biology

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“…It is reported that D. melanogaster larvae need large amounts of dietary carotenoids for the biosynthesis of visual pigments (Giovannucci & Stephenson, 1999). Further, carotenoids infl uence insect multitrophic interactions and affect the evolutionary outcomes (Heath et al, 2013). Apples are also highly attractive and commonly used for trapping fruit fl ies, and experiments on habitat selection and life-history traits (Jaenike, 1983;Hoffmann et al, 1984;Hoffmann, 1985;Pavković-Lučić et al, 2012;Kristensen et al, 2016).…”

Section: Fly Strains and Substratesmentioning

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Fitness traits of Drosophila melanogaster (Diptera: Drosophilidae) after long-term laboratory rearing on different diets

Trajković¹,

Vujić²,

Miličić³

et al. 2017

Eur. J. Entomol.

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Abstract. Nutrition is one of the most important environmental factors that infl uence the development and growth in Drosophila. The food composition strongly affects their reproduction, welfare and survival, so it is necessary for fl ies to search for a mixture of macronutrients that maximizes their fi tness. We have fi ve D. melanogaster strains, which were reared for 13 years on fi ve different substrates: standard cornmeal-agar-sugar-yeast medium and four substrates modifi ed by adding tomato, banana, carrot and apple. This study was aimed at determining how such long-term rearing of fl ies on substrates with different protein content affects fi tness traits (dynamics of eclosion, developmental time and egg-to-adult survival). Further, we determined how transferring fl ies reared on fruit/vegetable substrates to a standard laboratory diet affected their fi tness. Results indicate that strains reared on the diet with the lowest content of protein and the highest C/N ratio had the slowest eclosion and developmental time, and lowest egg-to-adult survival (apple diet). The fl ies reared on the diet with the highest protein content and the lowest C/N ratio had the highest survival (tomato diet). Flies reared on the carrot diet, which is quite similar in protein content and C/N ratio to the standard cornmeal diet, had the fastest development. Transferring fl ies to the standard cornmeal diet accelerate eclosion and developmental time, but did not affect survival.

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“…Carotenoids are yielded within plastids and protect chlorophyll against photo-oxidation occurring due to excess light, thereby improve photosynthesis by reducing ROS in chilling stress (Heath et al, 2013). To envisage the potential role of carotenoids in chilling stress, we overexpressed three tomato transgenic lines by AtCBF3 under the lip9 promoter.…”

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WITHDRAWN: Physiological and biochemical characterization of tomato transgenic lines overexpressing Arabidopsis thaliana cold responsive-element binding factor 3 (AtCBF3) gene under chilling stress

Shah

Ali²,

Qureshi

et al. 2015

Journal of Biotechnology

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The role of carotenoids and their derivatives in mediating interactions between insects and their environment

Cited by 79 publications

References 224 publications

Spiders have rich pigmentary and structural colour palettes

Spiders have rich pigmentary and structural colour palettes

Fitness traits of Drosophila melanogaster (Diptera: Drosophilidae) after long-term laboratory rearing on different diets

WITHDRAWN: Physiological and biochemical characterization of tomato transgenic lines overexpressing Arabidopsis thaliana cold responsive-element binding factor 3 (AtCBF3) gene under chilling stress

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