Biometrical evidence for adaptations of the salivary glands to pollen feeding in Heliconius butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 604-612

  Eberhard, Stefan H ^a   Nemeschkal, Hans L ^a   Krenn, Harald W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Discriminant analysis; Exploitation; Morphometrics; Multivariate data analysis; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BIOMETRY; BODY SIZE; BUTTERFLY; HERBIVORY; MORPHOMETRY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOTROPICAL REGION; POLLEN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SALIVA;

HELICONIINAE; HELICONIUS; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 67649858809     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01243.x     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Alm J, Ohnmeiss TE, Lanza J, Vriesenga L. 1990. Preference of cabbage white butterflies and honey bees for nectar that contains amino acids. Oecologia (Berlin) 84 : 53 57.
2. Beltrán M, Jiggins CD, Brower AVZ, Bermingham E, Mallet J. 2007. Do pollen feeding, pupal-mating and larval gregariousness have a single origin in Heliconius butterflies? Inferences from multilocus DNA sequence data. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 92 : 221 239. (Pubitemid 47437781)
3. Brown KS. 1981. The biology of Heliconius and related genera. Annual Review of Entomology 26 : 427 456.
4. Chapman RF. 1998. The insects: structure and function, 4th edn. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
5. Dunlap-Pianka H, Boggs CL, Gilbert LE. 1977. Ovarian dynamics in Heliconiine butterflies: programmed senescence versus eternal youth. Science 197 : 487 490.
6. Eberhard SH, Hrassnigg N, Crailsheim K, Krenn HW. 2007. Evidence of protease in the saliva of the butterfly Heliconius melpomene (L.) (Nymphalidae, Lepidoptera). Journal of Insect Physiology 53 : 126 131. (Pubitemid 46217076)
7. Eberhard SH, Krenn HW. 2003. Salivary glands and salivary pumps in adult Nymphalidae (Lepidoptera). Zoomorphology 122 : 161 167. (Pubitemid 38061903)
8. Eberhard SH, Krenn HW. 2005. Anatomy of the oral valve in nymphalid butterflies and a functional model for fluid uptake in Lepidoptera. Zoologischer Anzeiger 243 : 305 312. (Pubitemid 40771414)
9. Gilbert LE. 1972. Pollen feeding and reproductive biology of Heliconius butterflies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 69 : 1403 1407.
10. Gilbert LE. 1991. Biodiversity of a Central American Heliconius community: pattern, process and problems. In : Price PW, Lewinsohn TM, Fernandes GW, Benson WW, eds. Plant-animal interactions: evolutionary ecology in tropical and temperate regions. New York, NY : John Wiley and Sons, 403 427.
11. Hakim RS, Kafatos FC. 1974. The structure and salivary function of the labial gland in adult Manduca sexta. Tissue and Cell 6 : 729 750.
12. Harvey DJ. 1991. Higher classification of the Nymphalidae. In : Nijhout F, ed. Evolution of butterfly's wing pattern. New York, NY : Academic Press, 255 273.
13. Kirbach P. 1884. Über die Mundwerkzeuge der Schmetterlinge. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 50 : 78 119.
14. Knopp MCN, Krenn HW. 2003. Efficiency of fruit juice feeding in Morpho peleides (Nymphalidae, Lepidoptera). Journal of Insect Behaviour 16 : 67 77. (Pubitemid 36453052)
15. Krenn HW, Penz CM. 1998. Mouthparts of Heliconius butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): a search for anatomical adaptations to pollen-feeding behaviour. International Journal of Insect Morphology and Embryology 27 : 301 309. (Pubitemid 29013726)
16. Nahrstedt A, Davis RH. 1983. Occurrence, variation and biosynthesis of the cyanogenic glucosides linamarin and lotaustralin in species of the Heliconiini (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 75 : 65 73.
17. Nemeschkal HL. 1999. Morphometric correlation patterns of adult birds (Fringillidae: Passeriformes and Columbiformes) mirror the expression of developmental control genes. Evolution 53 : 899 918. (Pubitemid 29332423)
18. O'Brien DM, Boggs CL, Fogel ML. 2003. Pollen feeding in the butterfly Heliconius charitonia: isotopic evidence for essential amino acid transfer from pollen to eggs. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences 270 : 2631 2636. (Pubitemid 38082952)
19. Packard GC, Boardman TJ. 1999. The use of percentages and size-specific indices to normalize physiological data for variation in body size: wasted time, wasted effort? Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 122 : 37 44. (Pubitemid 29118244)
20. Penz CM. 1999. Higher level phylogeny for the passion-wine butterflies (Nymphalidae, Heliconiinae) based on early stage and adult morphology. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 127 : 277 344. (Pubitemid 129321998)
21. Penz CM, Krenn HW. 2000. Behavioral adaptations to pollen-feeding in Heliconius butterflies (Nymphalidae, Heliconiinae): an experiment using Lantana flowers. Journal of Insect Behaviour 13 : 856 880.
22. Ribeiro JMC. 1995. Insect saliva: function, biochemistry and physiology. In : Chapman RF, de Boer G, eds. Regulatory mechanism in insect feeding. New York, NY : Chapman and Hall, 74 97.
23. Soyelu OL, Akingbohungbe AE, Okonji RE. 2007. Salivary glands and their digestive enzymes in pod-sucking bugs (Hemiptera: Coreoidea) associated with cowpea Vigna unguiculata ssp. unguiculata in Nigeria. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science 27 : 40 47. (Pubitemid 47154488)
24. Wigglesworth VB. 1972. The principles of insect physiology, 7th edn. New York, NY : John Wiley and Sons.