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Commun Integr Biol

Title:		Recognition of foreign oviposition marking pheromones is context dependent and determined by preimaginal conditioning
Author(s):		Stelinski LL; Zhang A; Onagbola EO; Meyer WL;
Address:		"Entomology and Nematology Department, Citrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL 33850, USA. stelinski@ufl.edu"
Journal Title:		Commun Integr Biol
Year:		2009
Volume:		2
Issue:		5
Page Number:		391 - 393
DOI:		10.4161/cib.2.5.8759
ISSN/ISBN:		1942-0889 (Electronic) 1942-0889 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Many insects deposit marking pheromones following egg-laying that signal an occupied and thus sub-optimal resource. Herbivorous insects mark host fruit or other vegetative plant parts after depositing eggs, while insect parasitoids deposit such pheromones directly on the cuticle of a particular life stage of their prey. These oviposition marking pheromones (OMPs) are then recognized by conspecifics, which avoid subsequent egg-laying in the previously utilized and unsuitable host. Since many host resources are capable of supporting a limited number of offspring, these pheromones function to decrease competition among the brood, which increases survival rate of the subsequent generation. In rare instances, distinct species of phytophagous and parasitic insects will inspect the same substrate following egg-laying.1 Recently, Stelinski et al.1 have demonstrated that in such instances, the herbivore is able to learn to recognize its predator's OMP and utilize it to its advantage by avoiding oviposition into unsuitable host fruit. This recognition of a foreign marking pheromone occurs in a multitrophic context since both herbivore and parasitoid inspect, oviposit into, and mark the same substrate (i.e., fruit surface). In this Article Addendum, we further show that this recognition of a foreign pheromone is both context-dependent and mediated by preimaginal conditioning"
Keywords:		Diachasma alloeum Rhagoletis pomonella behavioral plasticity host marking larval conditioning parasitoid xenodeictic pheromone;
Notes:		"PubMed-not-MEDLINEStelinski, Lukasz L Zhang, Aijun Onagbola, Ebenezer O Meyer, Wendy L eng 2009/11/13 Commun Integr Biol. 2009 Sep; 2(5):391-3. doi: 10.4161/cib.2.5.8759"