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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)
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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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Publication type Article: Journal article
Document type Scientific Article
Keywords Behavior ; Co-evolution ; Herbivore ; Insect Egg ; Olfaction ; Oviposition ; Pine ; Sawfly ; Sex Pheromone; Plant; Preference; Diprionidae; Hymenoptera; Performance; Evolution; Behavior; Signals; Cues
Language english
Publication Year 2024
HGF-reported in Year 2024
ISSN (print) / ISBN 2075-4450
e-ISSN 2075-4450
Journal Insects
Quellenangaben Volume: 15, Issue: 6, Pages: , Article Number: 458 Supplement: ,
Publisher MDPI
Publishing Place St Alban-anlage 66, Ch-4052 Basel, Switzerland
Reviewing status Peer reviewed
Institute(s) Institute of Translational Genomics (ITG)
POF-Topic(s) 30205 - Bioengineering and Digital Health
Research field(s) Enabling and Novel Technologies
PSP Element(s) G-506701-001
Grants German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG)
Scopus ID 85197889477
PubMed ID 38921172
Erfassungsdatum 2024-06-27