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Title:Special plant species determines diet breadth of phytophagous insects: a study on host plant expansion of the host-specialized Aphis gossypii Glover
Author(s):Wu W; Liang XL; Zhao HY; Xu TT; Liu XD;
Address:"Department of Entomology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China"
Journal Title:PLoS One
Year:2013
Volume:20130408
Issue:4
Page Number:e60832 -
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060832
ISSN/ISBN:1932-6203 (Electronic) 1932-6203 (Linking)
Abstract:"Host specialization is a ubiquitous character of phytophagous insects. The polyphagous population is usually composed of some subpopulations that can use only a few closely related plants. Cotton-melon aphids, Aphis gossypii Glover exhibited strong host specialization, and the cotton- and cucurbits-specialized biotypes had been clearly identified. However, the experimental work that addressed the roles of plant species in determining diet breadth of phytophagous insects is rare. In the present study, we took the artificial host transfer method to assess the role of two special plants, zucchini Cucurbita zucchini L. and cowpea Vigna unguiculata (Linn.) Walp, in regulating diet breadth of cotton- and cucurbits-specialized A. gossypii collected from cotton and cucumber fields and reared separately on the native host plant for ten years. The results showed that the cotton-specialized aphids did not directly use cucumber whereas the cucurbits-specialized did not use cotton regardless of the coexistence or separation of cotton and cucumber plants. Neither of the cotton- and cucurbits-specialized aphids could use capsicum Capsicum annuum, eggplant Solanum melongenahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolus_Linnaeus, tomato Solanum lycopersicum, maize Zea mayshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus, and radish Raphanus sativus, however, both of them could use zucchini and cowpea. Moreover, the feeding experience on zucchini led the cotton-specialized aphids to use cucumber well and finally to be transformed into the cucurbits-specialized biotype. The short-term feeding experience on cowpea resulted in the diet breadth expansion of the cucurbits-specialized aphids to use cotton. On the other hand, the diet breadth expansion of the cucurbits- and cotton-specialized aphids was only realized by different species of plant. It concluded that the special host plant did induce the conversion of feeding habits in the cotton- and cucurbits-specialized aphids, and consequently broke the host specialization. The plant species is an underlying factor to determine the diet breadth of phytophagous insects"
Keywords:Animals Aphids/*physiology Cucumis sativus *Diet Ecosystem Gossypium Herbivory Host Specificity *Plants Population Dynamics;
Notes:"MedlineWu, Wei Liang, Xin Li Zhao, Hai Yang Xu, Ting Ting Liu, Xiang Dong eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't 2013/04/13 PLoS One. 2013 Apr 8; 8(4):e60832. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060832. Print 2013"

 
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