Contribution of symbiotic mycangial fungi to larval nutrition of a leaf-rolling weevil

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 711-722

  Kobayashi, Chisato ^a   Fukasawa, Yu ^a   Hirose, Dai ^b   Kato, Makoto ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Euops lespedezae; Insect fungus symbiosis; Larval development; Nutritional enhancement; Penicillium

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; FUNGUS; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MUTUALISM; NUTRITION; SYMBIOSIS;

ATTELABIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLEOPTERA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; PENICILLIUM; SIRICOIDEA;

EID: 52649137494     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-007-9196-2     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. DK Aanen P Eggleton C Rouland-Lefèvre T Guldberg-Frøslev S Rosendahl JJ Boomsma 2002 The evolution of fungus-growing termites and their mutualistic fungal symbionts Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 23 14887 14892
2. T Abe M Higashi 1991 Cellulose centered perspective on terrestrial community structure Oikos 60 127 133
3. AB Abril EH Bucher 2002 Evidence that the fungus cultured by leaf-cutting ants does not metabolize cellulose Ecol Lett 5 325 328
4. M Bacci Jr MM Anversa FC Pagnocca 1995 Cellulose degradation by Leucocoprinus gongylophorus, the fungus cultured by the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens rubropilosa Antonie von Leeuwenhoek 67 385 386
5. SJ Barras JD Hodges 1969 Carbohydrates in inner bark of Pinus taeda as affected by Dendroctonus frontalis and associated microorganisms Can Entomol 101 489 493
6. Batra LR (1979) Insect-fungus symbiosis. Allenheld & Osmun, Montclair, NJ
7. Batra LR, Batra SWT (1979) Termite-fungus mutualism. In: Batra LR (ed) Insect-fungus symbiosis. Allenheld & Osmun, Montclair, NJ, pp 77-116
8. JR Bridges 1983 Mycangial fungi of Dendroctonous frontalis (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) and their relationship to beetle population trends Environ Entomol 12 858 861
9. JR Bridges TJ Perry 1985 Effects of mycangial fungi on gallery construction and distribution of bluestain in southern pine beetle-infested pine bolts J Entomol Sci 20 2 271 275
10. P D'Ettorre P Mora V Dibangou C Rouland C Errard 2002 The role of the symbiotic fungus in the digestive metabolism of two species of fungus-growing ants J Comp Physiol B 172 169 176
11. Domsch KH, Gams W, Anderson T-H (1993) Compendium of soil fungi, vol 1. IHW-Verlag, Eching
12. Evans HC (1989) Mycopathogens of insects of epigeal and aerial habitats. In: Wilding N, Collins NM, Hammond PM, Webber JF (eds) Insect-fungus interactions. Academic Press, London, pp 205-238
13. M Gardes TD Bruns 1993 ITS primer with enhanced specificity for basidiomycetes-application to the identification of mycorrhizae and rust Mol Ecol 21 113 118
14. Haack RA, Slansky F Jr (1987) Nutritional ecology of wood-feeding Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, and Hymenoptera. In: Slansky F Jr, Rodriguez JG (eds) Nutritional ecology of insects, mites, spiders, and related invertebrates. Wiley, New York, pp 449-486
15. DF Hochuli 1996 The ecology of plant/insect interactions: implications of digestive strategy for feeding by phytophagous insects Oikos 75 133 141
16. Hölldbler B, Wilson EO (1990) The ants. Belknap, Cambridge
17. F Hyodo T Inoue J-I Azuma I Tayasu T Abe 2000 Role of the mutualistic fungus in lignin degradation in the fungus-growing termite Macrotermes gilvus (Isoptera; Macrotermitinae) Soil Biol Biochem 32 653 658
18. S Iwamoto S Tokumasu Y Suyama M Kakishima 2002 Molecular phylogeny of four selected species of the strictly anamorphic genus Thysanophora using nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences Mycoscience 43 169 180
19. Kendrick B (2000) The fifth kingdom, 3rd edn. Focus Publishing, USA
20. JJ Kukor MM Martin 1983 Acquisition of digestive enzymes by siricid woodwasps from their fungal symbiont Science 220 1161 1163
21. Lee KE, Wood TG (1971) Termites and soil. Academic Press, London
22. M Littledyke JM Cherrett 1976 Direct ingestion of plant sap from cut leaves by the leaf-cutting ants Atta cephalotes (L.) and Acromyrmex octospinosus (Reich) (Formicidae, Attini) Bull Entomol Res 66 205 217
23. Madden JL (1988) Sirex in Australasia. In: Berryman AA (ed) Dynamics of forest insect populations: patterns, causes, implications. Plenum, New York, pp 407-429
24. MM Martin 1991 The evolution of cellulose digestion in insects Philos Trans R Soc Lond B 333 281 288
25. MM Martin JS Martin 1978 Cellulose digestion in the midgut of the fungus-growing termite Macrotermes natalensis: the role of acquired digestive enzymes Science 199 1453 1455
26. MM Martin NA Weber 1969 The cellulose-utilizing capability of the fungus cultured by the Attine ant Atta colombica tonsipes Ann Entomol Soc Am 62 1386 1387
27. T Martin L Oliveira P Garcia 2005 Larval mortality factors of Spodoptera littoralis in the Azores BioControl 50 761 770
28. Maynard AL, Loosli BS, Harold FH, Warner RG (1979) Animal nutrition. McGrow-Hill Book Company, New York
29. K Miura M Kudo 1970 An agar-medium for aquatic hyphomycetes Trans Mycol Soc Jpn 11 116 118 (in Japanese)
30. FD Morgan 1968 Bionomics of siricidae Annu Rev Entomol 13 239 256
31. O'Donnell K (1993) Fusarium and its near relatives. In: Reynolds DR, Taylor JW (eds) The fungal holomorph: mitotic, meiotic and pleomorphic speciation in fungal systematics. CAB International, Wallingford, pp 225-233
32. T Osono 2002 Phyllosphere fungi on leaf litter of Fagus crenata: occurrence, colonization, and succession Can J Bot 80 460 469
33. TD Paine KF Raffa TC Harrington 1997 Interactions among scolytid bark beetles, their associated fungi, and live host conifers Annu Rev Entomol 42 179 206
34. Peterson SW (2000) Phylogenetic analysis of Penicillium species based on ITS and lsu-rDNA nucleotide sequences. In: Samson RA, Pitt JI (eds) Integration of modern taxonomic methods for Penicillium and Aspergillus classification. Hardwood, Amsterdam, pp 163-178
35. RJ Quinlan JM Cherrett 1979 The role of fungus in the diet of the leaf-cutting ant Ecol Entomol 4 151 160
36. F-J Richard P Mora C Errard C Rouland 2005 Digestive capacities of leaf-cutting ants and the contribution of their fungal cultivar to the degradation of plant material J Comp Physiol B 175 297 303
37. Riedel A (2002) Taxonomy, phylogeny, and zoogeography of the weevil genus Euops (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curcurionoidea) in the Papuan region. PhD thesis, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich
38. M Rohlfs B Obmann R Peterson 2005 Competition with filamentous fungi and its implication for a gregarious lifestyle in insects living on ephemeral resources Ecol Entomol 30 556 563
39. K Sakurai 1985 An attelabid weevil (Euops splendida) cultivates fungi J Ethol 3 151 156
40. Y Sawada K Morimoto 1986 The mycetangia and the mode of the fungus transmission in the weevil genus Euops (Coleoptera: Attelabidae) Sci Bull Fac Agr Kyusyu Univ 40 4 197 205 (in Japanese with English summary)
41. Schoonhoven LM, Jermy T, van Loon JJA (1997) Insect-plant biology. Chapman & Hall, London
42. A Silva M Bacci Jr CG Siqueira OC Bueno FC Pagnocca MJA Hebling 2003 Survival of Atta sexdens workers on different food sources J Insect Physiol 49 307 313
43. CG Siqueira M Bacci Jr FC Pagnocca OC Bueno MJA Hebling 1998 Metabolism of plant polysaccharides by Leucoagaricus gongylophorus, the symbiotic fungun of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens L Appl Environ Microb 64 4820 4822
44. K Suzuki C Uehara 1997 Cradle structure and formation process in the subfamilies Apoderinae and Attelabinae (Coleoptera, Attelabidae) from Japan Bull Hoshizaki Green Found 1 99 204
45. Takabe N (2004) Host use of Euops splendidus and dynamics of its mutualistic fungi through development of the beetle. Master's thesis, Nagoya University (in Japanese)
46. KW Talmadge K Keegstra WD Bauer P Albersheim 1973 The structure of plant cell wall Plant Physiol 51 158 173
47. H Watanabe H Noda G Tokuda N Lo 1998 A cellulase gene of termite origin Nature 394 330 331
48. Wheeler Q, Blackwell M (1984) Fungus-insect relationships. Columbia University Press, New York
49. Wilding N, Collins NM, Hammond PM, Webber JF (1989) Insect-fungus interactions. Academic Press, London
50. K Yamaji Y Fukushi Y Hashidoko T Yoshida S Tahara 1999 Characterization of antifungal metabolites produced by Penicillium species isolated from seeds of Picea glehnii J Chem Ecol 25 1643 1645