| Title: | "Feeding on the Fruit Waste Orange Bagasse Modifies Immature Protein Content, Body Weight, Scent Bouquet Composition, and Copula Duration in Males of a Tephritid Frugivorous Fly" |
| Author(s): | Pascacio-Villafan C; Guillen L; Altuzar-Molina A; Tellez-Mora JA; Cruz-Hernandez E; Aluja M; |
| Address: | "Red de Manejo Biorracional de Plagas y Vectores, Cluster Cientifico y Tecnologico BioMimic(R), Instituto de Ecologia, A.C., Xalapa 91073, Veracruz, Mexico. Facultad de Ciencias Agricolas, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa 91090, Veracruz, Mexico" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 2079-7737 (Print) 2079-7737 (Electronic) 2079-7737 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Anastrepha ludens is a polyphagous frugivorous tephritid that infests citrus and mango. Here, we report the establishment of a laboratory colony of A. ludens reared on a larval medium that is a waste for the citrus industry, specifically, orange (Citrus x sinensis) fruit bagasse. After 24 generations of rearing on a nutritionally poor orange bagasse diet, pupae weighed 41.1% less than pupae from a colony reared on a nutritionally rich artificial diet. Larvae from the orange bagasse diet had 6.94% less protein content than larvae from the artificial diet, although their pupation rate was similar. Males from the orange bagasse diet produced a scent bouquet with 21 chemical compounds and were sexually competitive, but they had significantly shorter copulations when compared to males from the artificial diet and from the wild host, Casimiroa edulis, which had relatively simple scent bouquets. The chemical complexity in the odors of males from the orange bagasse diet might initially have attracted females to novel scent combinations, but, once in the copula, they may have been able to sense negative characteristics in males, leading them to terminate copulations soon after they began. We conclude that A. ludens can adjust morphological, life history, nutritional, and chemical traits when adapted to a larval environment consisting of fruit bagasse" |
| Keywords: | Anastrepha ludens Diptera rearing copulation feeding behavior fruit waste management larval protein orange bagasse saprophagy sexual pheromones; |
| Notes: | "PubMed-not-MEDLINEPascacio-Villafan, Carlos Guillen, Larissa Altuzar-Molina, Alma Tellez-Mora, Julio A Cruz-Hernandez, Enedina Aluja, Martin eng NA/Programa Nacional de Moscas de la Fruta (DGSV-SENASICA-SADER) via the Consejo Nacional Consultivo Fitosanitario (CONACOFI)/ NA/Instituto de Ecologia, A.C./ Switzerland 2023/05/27 Biology (Basel). 2023 May 19; 12(5):739. doi: 10.3390/biology12050739" |
