The role of host plant species in the phenotypic differentiation of sympatric populations of Aleiodes nolophanae and Cotesia marginiventris

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 14-26

  Medina, Raul F ^a   Barbosa, Pedro ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Braconidae; Glycine max; Green cloverworm; Host associated differentiation; Hymenoptera; Hypena scabra; Medicago sativa; Parasitoids; Tritrophic interactions

Indexed keywords

ALFALFA; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HOST PLANT; PARASITISM; PARASITOID; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DEFENSE; SOYBEAN; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION; WASP;

ALEIODES NOLOPHANAE; BRACONIDAE; COTESIA MARGINIVENTRIS; FABACEAE; GLYCINE MAX; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; HYPENA SCABRA; LEPIDOPTERA; MEDICAGO SATIVA; NOCTUIDAE;

EID: 46249103728     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2008.00736.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (95)

1. Abe Y Tahara M (2003) Daily progeny production and thermal influence on development and adult longevity of the leafminer parasitoid, Gronotoma micromorpha (Hym., Eucoilidae). Journal of Applied Entomology 127 : 477 480.
2. Althoff DM Thompson JN (1999) Comparative geographic structures of two parasitoid-host interactions. Evolution 53 : 818 825.
3. Althoff DM Thompson JN (2001) Geographic structure in the searching behaviour of a specialist parasitoid: combining molecular and behavioural approaches. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 14 : 406 417.
4. Arthur AP, Stainer JER Turnbull AL (1964) The interaction between Orgilus obscurator (Nees) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and Temelucha interruptor (Grav.) (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), parasites of the pine shoot moth, Rhyacionia buoliana (Schiff.) (Lepidoptera: Olethreutidae). The Canadian Entomologist 96 : 1030 1034.
5. Barbosa P (ed.) (1988) Natural Enemies and Herbivore-Plant Interactions: Influence of Plant Allelochemicals and Host Specificity. Wiley, New York, NY, USA.
6. Barbosa P Caldas A (2004) Patterns of parasitoid-host associations in differentially parasitized macrolepidopteran assemblages on black willow Salix nigra (Marsh) and box elder Acer negundo L. Basic and Applied Ecology 5 : 75 85.
7. Barbosa P, Gross P Kemper J (1991) Influence of plant allelochemicals on the tobacco hornworm and its parasitoid, Cotesia congregata. Ecology 72 : 1567 1575.
8. Barbosa P, Saunders JA, Kemper J, Trumbule R, Olechno J Martinat P (1986) Plant allelochemicals and insect parasitoids effects of nicotine on Cotesia congregata (Say) (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) and Hyposoter annulipes (Cresson) (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Journal of Chemical Ecology 12 : 1319 1328.
9. Baur ME Yeargan KV (1996) Movement and response to semiochemicals by parasitoids of Plathypena scabra (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 69 : 122 132.
10. Beck NG Cameron PJ (1990) Comparison of lepidopteran pest populations and their parasitoids in three vegetable brassicas. Proceedings of the 43rd New Zealand Weed and Pest Control Conference, pp. 21 25. New Zealand Weed and Pest Control Society : Palmerston North, New Zealand.
11. Benrey B Denno RF (1997) The slow-growth-high-mortality hypothesis: a test using the cabbage butterfly. Ecology 78 : 987 999.
12. Bernal JS, Luck RF Morse JG (1998) Sex ratios in field populations of two parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Coccus hesperidum L. (Homoptera: Coccidae). Oecologia 116 : 510 518.
13. Bhatt N Singh R (1989) Bionomics of an aphidiid parasitoid Trioxys indicus. 30. Effect of host plants on reproductive and developmental factors. Biological Agriculture and Horticulture 6 : 149 157.
14. Blackburn TM (1991) A comparative examination of life-span and fecundity in parasitoid Hymenoptera. Journal of Animal Ecology 60 : 151 164.
15. Boling JC Pitre HN (1970) Life history of Apanteles marginiventris with description of immature stages. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 43 : 465 470.
16. Bottrell DG, Barbosa P Gould F (1998) Manipulating natural enemies by plant variety selection and modification: a realistic strategy? Annual Review of Entomology 43 : 347 367.
17. Bouletreau M (1986) The genetic and coevolutionary interactions between parasitoids and their hosts. Insect Parasitoids (ed. by JK Waage D Greathead pp. 169 181. Academic Press, London, UK.
18. Braman SK, Duncan RR, Hanna WW Engelke MC (2004) Turfgrass species and cultivar influences on survival and parasitism of fall armyworm. Journal of Economic Entomology 97 : 1993 1998.
19. Brodeur J, Geervliet JBF Vet LEM (1998) Effects of Pieris host species on life history parameters in a solitary specialist and gregarious generalist parasitoid (Cotesia species). Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 86 : 145 152.
20. Campan E Benrey B (2004) Behavior and performance of a specialist and a generalist parasitoid of bruchids on wild and cultivated beans. Biological Control 30 : 220 228.
21. Campbell BC Duffey SS (1979) Tomatine and parasitic wasps: Potential incompatibility of plant antibiosis with biological control. Science 205 : 700 702.
22. Carton Y (1984) Analyse expérimentale de trois niveaux d'interactions entre Drosophila melanogaster et le parasite Leptopilina boulardi (sympatrie, allopatrie, xénopatrie). Génétique, Sélection et Evolution 16 : 417 430.
23. Carton Y Nappi A (1991) The Drosophila immune reaction and the parasitoid capacity to evade it: genetic and coevolutionary aspects. Acta Oecologica 12 : 89 104.
24. Charnov EL, Los-den Hartogh RL, Jones WT van den Assem J (1981) Sex ratio evolution in a variable environment. Nature 289 : 27 33.
25. Cloutier C, Levesque CA, Eaves DM Mackauer M (1991) Maternal adjustment of sex ratio in response to host size in the aphid parasitoid Ephedrus californicus. Canadian Journal of Zoology 69 : 1489 1495.
26. Coyle DR, McMillin JD Hart ER (1999) Pupal and adult parameters as potential indicators of cottonwood leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) fecundity and longevity. Great Lakes Entomologist 32 : 107 113.
27. Daza-Bustamante P, Fuentes-Contreras E, Rodriguez LC, Figueroa CC Niemeyer HM (2002) Behavioural differences between Aphidius ervi populations from two tritrophic systems are due to phenotypic plasticity. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 104 : 321 328.
28. Eben A, Benrey B, Sivinski J Aluja M (2000) Host species and host plant effects on preference and performance of Diachasmimorpha longicaudata (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Environmental Entomology 29 : 87 94.
29. Eliopoulos PA Stathas GJ (2005) Effects of temperature, host instar, and adult feeding on progeny production by the endoparasitoid Venturia canescens (Gravenhorst) (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Environmental Entomology 34 : 14 21.
30. Fox LR, Kester KM Eisenbach J (1996) Direct and indirect responses of parasitoids to plants: sex ratio, plant quality and herbivore diet breadth. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 80 : 289 292.
31. Fox LR Morrow PA (1981) Specialization: species property or local phenomenon. Science 211 : 887 893.
32. Futuyma DJ Peterson SC (1985) Genetic variation in the use of resources by insects. Annual Review of Entomology 30 : 217 238.
33. Gentry GL Dyer LA (2002) On the conditional nature of neotropical caterpillar defenses against their natural enemies. Ecology 83 : 3108 3119.
34. Gilmore JU (1938a) Notes on Apanteles congregatus (Say) as a parasite of tobacco hornworms. Journal of Economic Entomology 31 : 712 715.
35. Gilmore JU (1938b) Observations on the hornworms attacking tobacco in Tennessee and Kentucky. Journal of Economic Entomology 31 : 706 712.
36. Godfray HCJ (1994) Parasitoids: Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, USA.
37. Gols R, Bukovinszky T, van Dam NM, Dicke M, Bullock JM Harvey JA (2008) Performance of generalist and specialist herbivores and their endoparasitoids differs on cultivated and wild Brassica populations. Journal of Chemical Ecology 34 : 132 143.
38. Hajek AE (2004) Natural Enemies: An Introduction to Biological Control. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
39. Harvey JA (2005) Factors affecting the evolution of development strategies in parasitoid wasps: the importance of functional constraints and incorporating complexity. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 117 : 1 13.
40. Harvey JA, Harvey IF Thompson DJ (1995) The effect of host nutrition on growth and development of the parasitoid wasp Venturia canescens. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 75 : 213 220.
41. Harvey JA, van Nouhuys S Biere A (2005) Effects of quantitative variation in allelochemicals in Plantago lanceolata on development of a generalist and a specialist herbivore and their endoparasitoids. Journal of Chemical Ecology 31 : 287 302.
42. Hedlund K, Vet LEM Dicke M (1996) Generalist and specialist parasitoid strategies of using odours of adult drosophilid flies when searching for larval hosts. Oikos 77 : 390 398.
43. Helms SE, Connelly SJ Hunter MD (2004) Effects of variation among plant species on the interaction between a herbivore and its parasitoid. Ecological Entomology 29 : 44 51.
44. Hoballah MEF, Tamo C Turlings TCJ (2002) Differential attractiveness of induced odors emitted by eight maize varieties for the parasitoid Cotesia marginiventris: Is quality or quantity important? Journal of Chemical Ecology 28 : 951 968.
45. van Huis A de Rooy M (1998) The effect of leguminous plant species on Callosobruchus maculatus (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) and its egg parasitoid Uscana lariophaga (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research 88 : 93 99.
46. Hunter MD (2003) Effects of plant quality on the population ecology of parasitoids. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 5 : 1 8.
47. Itami JK, Craig TP Horner JD (1998) Factors affecting gene flow between the host races of Eurosta solidaginis. Genetic Structure and Local Adaptation in Natural Insect Populations: Effects of Ecology, Life History, and Behavior (ed. by S Mopper SY Strauss). Chapman & Hall, New York, NY, USA.
48. Jarosik V, Holy I, Lapchin L Havelka J (2003) Sex ratio in the aphid parasitoid Aphidius colemani (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in relation to host size. Bulletin of Entomological Research 93 : 255 258.
49. de Jong PW van Alphen JJM (1989) Host size selection and sex allocation in Leptomastix dactylopii, a parasitoid of Planococcus citri. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 50 : 161 169.
50. Kester KM Barbosa P (1994) Behavioral responses to host foodplants of two populations of the insect parasitoid Cotesia congregata (Say). Oecologia 99 : 151 157.
51. King BH (1988) Sex-ratio manipulation in response to host size by the parasitoid wasp Spalangia cameroni: a laboratory study. Evolution 42 : 1190 1198.
52. Kitamura M, Nakamura T, Hattori K, Ishida TA, Shibata S et al 2007) Among-tree variation in leaf traits and herbivore attacks in a deciduous oak, Quercus dentata. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research 22 : 211 218.
53. Kraaijeveld AR Godfray HCJ (1999) Geographic patterns in the evolution of resistance and virulence in Drosophila and its parasitoids. American Naturalist 153 : S61 S74.
54. Kraaijeveld AR van Alphen JJM (1994) Geographical variation in resistance of the parasitoid Asobara tabida against encapsulation by Drosophila melanogaster larvae: The mechanism explored. Physiological Entomology 19 : 9 14.
55. Kraaijeveld AR van der Wel NN (1994) Geographic variation in reproductive success of the parasitoid Asobara tabida in larvae of several Drosophila species. Ecological Entomology 19 : 221 229.
56. Kraaijeveld AR, Voet S van Alphen JJM (1994) Geographical variation in habitat choice and host suitability in the parasitoid Asobara rufescens. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 72 : 109 114.
57. Krombein KV, Hurd PD, Smith DR Burks BD (1979) Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico, Volume 1, Symphyta and Apocrita. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC, USA.
58. Kunnalaca S Mueller AJ (1979) A laboratory study of Apanteles marginiventris, a parasitoid of green cloverworm. Environmental Entomology 8 : 365 368.
59. Lentz GL Pedigo LP (1974) Life history phenomena of Rogas nolophanae and Winthemia sinuata, parasites of the green cloverworm. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 67 : 678 680.
60. Liu SS Jiang LH (2003) Differential parasitism of Plutella xylostella (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae) larvae by the parasitoid Cotesia plutellae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) on two host plant species. Bulletin of Entomological Research 93 : 65 72.
61. McCutcheon GS, Turnipseed SG Sullivan MJ (1997) Green cloverworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) as an alternate host for natural enemies of lepidopteran pests of soybean in South Carolina. Journal of Agricultural Entomology 14 : 105 119.
62. Medina RF, Barbosa P Waddell K (2005) Parasitism levels in Orgyia leucostigma feeding on two tree species: implications for the slow-growth-high-mortality hypothesis. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 115 : 193 197.
63. Mollema C (1988) Genetical Aspects of Resistance in a Host-Parasitoid Interaction. PhD Dissertation. University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands.
64. Ode PJ (2006) Plant chemistry and natural enemy fitness: Effects on herbivore and natural enemy interactions. Annual Review of Entomology 51 : 163 185.
65. Pedigo LP (1971) Ovipositional response of Plathypena scabra (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) to selected surfaces. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 64 : 647 651.
66. Pedigo LP (1994) Green cloverworm. Handbook of Soybean Insect Pests (ed. by LG Higley DJ Boethel pp. 61 62. Entomological Society of America, Lanham, MD, USA.
67. Potting RPJ, Vet LEM Overholt WA (1997) Geographic variation in host selection behaviour and reproductive success in the stemborer parasitoid Cotesia flavipes (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research 87 : 515 524.
68. Price PW, Bouton CE, Gross P, McPheron BA, Thompson JN Weis AE (1980) Interactions among three trophic levels: influence of plants on interactions between insect herbivores and natural enemies. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 11 : 41 65.
69. Rajapakse RHS, Ashley TR Waddill VH (1991) Interspecific competition between parasitoids of the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (JE Smith) (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Insect Science and its Application 12 : 473 480.
70. Read DP, Feeny PP Root RB (1970) Habitat selection by the aphid parasite Diaeretiella rapae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and hyperparasite Charips brassicae (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). Canadian Entomologist 102 : 1567 1578.
71. Rudgers JA Strauss SY (2004) A selection mosaic in the facultative mutualism between ants and wild cotton. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences 271 : 2481 2488.
72. Salt G (1937) The egg-parasite of Sialis lutaria: a study of the influence of the host upon a dimorphic parasite. Parasitology 29 : 539 553.
73. SAS (1998) SAS/STAT User's Guide, Version 7. SAS Institute, Cary, NC, USA.
74. Sato Y Ohsaki N (1987) Host-habitat location by Apanteles glomeratus and effect of food-plant exposure on host-parasitism. Ecological Entomology 12 : 291 297.
75. Shiojiri K, Ozawa R, Matsui K, Kishimoto K, Kugimiya S Takabayashi J (2006) Role of the lipoxygenase/lyase pathway of host-food plants in the host searching behavior of two parasitoid species, Cotesia glomerata and Cotesia plutellae. Journal of Chemical Ecology 32 : 969 979.
76. Singer MS (2008) Evolutionary ecology of polyphagy. Specialization, Speciation, and Radiation: The Evolutionary Biology of Herbivorous Insects (ed. by KJ Tilmon pp. 29 42. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, USA.
77. Souissi R Le Rü B (1998) Influence of the host plant of the cassava mealybug Phenacoccus manihoti (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) on biological characteristics of its parasitoid Apoanagyrus lopezi (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research 88 : 75 82.
78. Stadler B Mackauer M (1996) Influence of plant quality on interactions between the aphid parasitoid Ephedrus californicus Baker (Hymenoptera: Aphidiidae) and its host, Acyrthosiphon pisum (Harris) (Homoptera: Aphididae). Canadian Entomologist 128 : 27 39.
79. Sznajder B Harvey JA (2003) Second and third trophic level effects of differences in plant species reflect dietary specialisation of herbivores and their endoparasitoids. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 109 : 73 82.
80. Teder T Tammaru T (2002) Cascading effects of variation in plant vigour on the relative performance of insect herbivores and their parasitoids. Ecological Entomology 27 : 94 104.
81. Thomas CD Singer MC (1998) Scale-dependent evolution of specialization in a checkerspot butterfly: from individuals to metapopulations and ecotypes. Genetic Structure and Local Adaptation in Natural Insect Populations (ed. by S Mopper SY Strauss pp. 343 374. Chapman & Hall, New York, NY, USA.
82. Thompson JN (1994) The Coevolutionary Process. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, USA.
83. Thompson JN (2005) The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, USA.
84. Thorpe KW Barbosa P (1986) Effects of consumption of high and low nicotine tobacco by Manduca sexta (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) on survival of gregarious endoparasitoid Cotesia congregata (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Journal of Chemical Ecology 12 : 1329 1337.
85. Thurston R Fox PM (1972) Inhibition by nicotine of emergence of Apanteles congregatus from its host, the tobacco hornworm. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 65 : 547 550.
86. Turlings TCJ Benrey B (1998) Effects of plant metabolites on the behavior and development of parasitic wasps. Ecoscience 5 : 321 333.
87. Verkerk RHJ, Leather SR Wright DJ (1998) The potential for manipulating crop-pest-natural enemy interactions for improved insect pest management. Bulletin of Entomological Research 88 : 493 501.
88. Verkerk RHJ Wright DJ (1996) Multitrophic interactions and management of the diamondback moth: a review. Bulletin of Entomological Research 86 : 205 216.
89. Vet LEM Dicke M (1992) Ecology of infochemical use by natural enemies in a tritrophic context. Annual Review of Entomology 37 : 141 172.
90. Vet LEM, Sokolowski MB, Macdonald DE Snellen H (1993) Responses of a generalist and a specialist parasitoid (Hymenoptera: Eucoilidae) to drosophilid larval kairomones. Journal of Insect Behavior 6 : 615 624.
91. Vinson B Barbosa P (eds) (1987) Interrelationships of Nutritional Ecology of Parasitoids. Wiley, New York, NY, USA.
92. Visser ME (1994) The importance of being large: the relationship between size and fitness in females of the parasitoid Aphaereta minuta (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Journal of Animal Ecology 63 : 963 978.
93. Waage JK Godfray HCJ (1985) Reproductive strategies and population ecology of insect parasitoids. Behavioral Ecology, British Ecological Symposium (ed. by RM Sibly RH Smith pp. 449 470. Blackwell Scientific, Oxford, UK.
94. Walker I (1959) Die Abwehrreaktion des Wirtes Drosophila melanogaster gegen die zoophage Cynipidae Pseudeucoila bochei Weld. Revue Suisse de Zoology 66 : 209 277.
95. Walker I (1962) Drosophila und Pseudocoila III. Selektions-versuche zur Steigerung des Wirtes. Revue Suisse de Zoologie : 209 227.