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Rahman-Soad, A.* ; Bittner, N. ; Hilker, M.*

Pine response to sawfly pheromones: Effects on sawfly's oviposition and larval growth.

Insects 15:458 (2024)
Verlagsversion DOI PMC
Open Access Gold
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Insect pheromones have been intensively studied with respect to their role in insect communication. However, scarce knowledge is available on the impact of pheromones on plant responses, and how these in turn affect herbivorous insects. A previous study showed that exposure of pine (Pinus sylvestris) to the sex pheromones of the pine sawfly Diprion pini results in enhanced defenses against the eggs of this sawfly; the egg survival rate on pheromone-exposed pine needles was lower than that on unexposed pine. The long-lasting common evolutionary history of D. pini and P. sylvestris suggests that D. pini has developed counter-adaptations to these pine responses. Here, we investigated by behavioral assays how D. pini copes with the defenses of pheromone-exposed pine. The sawfly females did not discriminate between the odor of pheromone-exposed and unexposed pine. However, when they had the chance to contact the trees, more unexposed than pheromone-exposed trees received eggs. The exposure of pine to the pheromones did not affect the performance of larvae and their pupation success. Our findings indicate that the effects that responses of pine to D. pini sex pheromones exert on the sawfly eggs and sawfly oviposition behavior do not extend to effects on the larvae.
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Publikationstyp Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
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Schlagwörter Behavior ; Co-evolution ; Herbivore ; Insect Egg ; Olfaction ; Oviposition ; Pine ; Sawfly ; Sex Pheromone; Plant; Preference; Diprionidae; Hymenoptera; Performance; Evolution; Behavior; Signals; Cues
ISSN (print) / ISBN 2075-4450
e-ISSN 2075-4450
Zeitschrift Insects
Quellenangaben Band: 15, Heft: 6, Seiten: , Artikelnummer: 458 Supplement: ,
Verlag MDPI
Verlagsort St Alban-anlage 66, Ch-4052 Basel, Switzerland
Nichtpatentliteratur Publikationen
Begutachtungsstatus Peer reviewed
Institut(e) Institute of Translational Genomics (ITG)
Förderungen German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG)