Infection effects on feeding and territorial behaviour in a predatory insect in the wild

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1185-1194

  Gonzalez Tokman D ^a   Cordoba Aguilar A ^a   Gonzalez Santoyo I ^a   Lanz Mendoza, H ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Condition; Damselfly; Hetaerina americana feeding; Infection; Predator; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIOENERGETICS; BIOMECHANICS; COMPENSATION; DAMSELFLY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FAT RESERVE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT; FOOD SUPPLY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATOR; STARVATION; TERRITORIALITY; TRADE-OFF; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; HETAERINA AMERICANA; HEXAPODA; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 79957688500     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.02.027     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. Adamo S.A. Parasitic suppression of feeding in the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta: parallels with feeding depression after an immune challenge. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology 2005, 60:185-197.
2. Adamo S.A., Fidler T., Forestell C. Illness-induced anorexia and its possible function in the caterpillar Manduca sexta. Brain, Behavior and Immunity 2007, 21:292-300.
3. Adamo S.A., Roberts J.L., Easy R., Ross N.W. Competition between immune function and lipid transport for the protein apolipophorin III leads to stress-induced immunosuppression in crickets. Journal of Experimental Biology 2008, 211:531-538.
4. Adamo S.A., Bartlett A., Le J., Spencer N., Sullivan K. Illness-induced anorexia may reduce trade-offs between digestion and immune function. Animal Behaviour 2010, 79:3-10.
5. Alaux C., Ducluz F., Crauser D., Le Conte Y. Diet effects on honeybee immunocompetence. Biology Letters 2010, 6:562-565.
6. Ayres J.S., Schneider D.S. The role of anorexia in resistance and tolerance to infections in Drosophila. PLoS Biology 2009, 7:1-10.
7. Babin A., Biard C., Moret Y. Dietary supplementation with carotenoids improves immunity without increasing its cost in a crustacean. American Naturalist 2010, 176:234-241.
8. Barnes H., Blackstock J. Estimation of lipids in marine animals and tissues: detailed investigation of the sulphophosphovanillin method for 'total' lipids. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 1973, 12:103-118.
9. Bascuñán-García P., Lara C., Córdoba-Aguilar A. Immune investment impairs growth, female reproduction and survival in the house cricket, Acheta domesticus. Journal of Insect Physiology 2010, 56:204-211.
10. Cerenius L., Söderhäll K. The prophenoloxidase-activating system in invertebrates. Immunological Reviews 2004, 198:116-126.
11. Cézilly F., Benhamou S. Optimal foraging strategies. A review. Revue d'ecologie-la terre et la vie 1996, 52:43-86.
12. Chiu S.T., Hsieh S.L., Yeh S.P., Jian S.T., Chen W., Liu C.H. The increase of immunity and disease resistance of the giant freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii by feeding with selenium-enriched diet. Fish and Shellfish Immunology 2010, 29:623-629.
13. Contreras-Garduño J., Canales-Lazcano J., Córdoba-Aguilar A. Wing pigmentation, immune ability and fat reserves in males of the rubyspot damselfly, Hetaerina americana. Journal of Ethology 2006, 24:165-173.
14. Contreras-Garduño J., Lanz-Mendoza H., Córdoba-Aguilar A. The expression of a sexually selected trait correlates with different immune defense components and survival in males of the American rubyspot. Journal of Insect Physiology 2007, 53:612-621.
15. Contreras-Garduño J., Buzatto B., Serrano-Meneses M.A., Nájera-Cordero K., Córdoba-Aguilar A. The size of the wing red spot as a heightened condition dependent trait in the American rubyspot. Behavioral Ecology 2008, 19:724-732.
16. Contreras-Garduño J., Córdoba-Aguilar A., Lanz-Mendoza H., Cordero-Rivera A. Territorial behaviour and immunity are mediated by juvenile hormone: the physiological basis of honest signalling?. Functional Ecology 2009, 23:157-163.
17. Contreras-Garduño, J., Córdoba-Aguilar, A., Azpilicueta-Amorín, M. & Cordero-Rivera, A. In press. Juvenile hormone favors sexually-selected traits but impairs fat reserves and muscle mass in males and females. Evolutionary Ecology.
18. Corbet P.S. Dragonflies: Behaviour and Ecology of Odonata 1999, Cornell University Press, New York.
19. Córdoba-Aguilar A. A female evolutionary response when survival is at risk: male harassment mediates early re-allocation of resources to increase egg number and size. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 2009, 63:751-763.
20. Córdoba-Aguilar A., Jiménez-Valdés J.G., Lanz-Mendoza H. Seasonal variation in ornament expression, body size, energetic reserves, immune response and survival in males of a territorial insect. Ecological Entomology 2009, 34:228-239.
21. Córdoba-Aguilar A., Raihani G., Serrano-Meneses M.A., Contreras-Garduño J. The lek mating system of Hetaerina damselflies (Insecta: Calopterygidae). Behaviour 2009, 146:189-207.
22. Crawley M.J. The R Book 2007, J. Wiley, West Sussex.
23. Exton M.S. Infection-induced anorexia: active host defense strategy. Appetite 1997, 29:369-383.
24. Fried C.S., May M.L. Energy expenditure and food intake of territorial male Pachydiplax longipennis (Odonata: Libellulidae). Ecological Entomology 1983, 8:283-292.
25. González-Santoyo I., González-Tokman D.M., Córdoba-Aguilar A., Lanz-Mendoza H. Phenoloxidase activity and melanization ability do not always correlate with wing pigmentation expression in Hetaerina damselflies (Zygoptera: Calopterygidae). Behaviour 2010, 147:1285-1307.
26. González-Tokman D.M., Córdoba-Aguilar A. Survival after experimental manipulation in the territorial damselfly Hetaerina titia (Odonata: Calopterygidae): more ornamented males are not more pathogen resistant. Journal of Ethology 2010, 28:29-33.
27. González-Tokman D.M., Lanz-Mendoza H., Córdoba-Aguilar A. Territorial damselflies do not show immunological priming in the wild. Physiological Entomology 2010, 35:364-372.
28. Gray D.A., Eckhardt G. Is cricket courtship song condition dependent?. Animal Behaviour 2001, 62:871-877.
29. Grether G.F. Intrasexual competition alone favors a sexually dimorphic ornament in the rubyspot damselfly Hetaerina americana. Evolution 1996, 50:1949-1957.
30. Grether G.F., Grey R.M. Novel cost of a sexually selected trait in the rubyspot damselfly Hetaerina americana: conspicuousness to prey. Behavioral Ecology 1996, 7:465-473.
31. Hegyi G., Zsolt L. Using information theory as a substitute for stepwise regression in ecology and behaviour. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 2011, 65:69-76.
32. Huffman M.A. Animal self-medication and ethnomedicine: exploration and exploitation of the medicinal properties of plants. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 2003, 62:371-381.
33. Kemp D.J., Alcock J. Aerial contests, sexual selection and flight morphology in solitary pompilid wasps. Ethology 2008, 114:195-202.
34. Kolluru G.R., Grether G.F., Dunlop E., South S. Food availability and parasite infection influence mating tactics in guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Behavioral Ecology 2009, 20:131-173.
35. König C., Schmid-Hempel P. Foraging activity and immunocompetence in workers of the bumble bee Bombus terrestris L. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 1995, 260:225-227.
36. Langhans W. Signals generating anorexia during acute illness. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 2007, 66:321-330.
37. Lawniczak M.K.N., Barnes A.I., Linklater J.R., Boone J.M., Wigby S., Chapman T. Mating and immunity in invertebrates. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2007, 22:48-55.
38. Lee K.P., Raubenheimer D., Simpson S.J. The effect of nutritional imbalance on compensatory feeding for cellulose-mediated dietary dilution in a generalist caterpillar. Physiological Entomology 2004, 29:108-117.
39. Lee K.P., Cory J.S., Wilson K., Raubenheimer D., Simpson S.J. Flexible diet choice offsets protein costs of pathogen resistance in a caterpillar. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 2006, 273:823-829.
40. Marden J.H. Body building dragonflies: costs and benefits of maximising flight muscle. Physiological Zoology 1989, 62:505-521.
41. Marden J.H., Cobb J.R. Territorial and mating success of dragonflies that vary in muscle power output and presence of gregarine gut parasites. Animal Behaviour 2004, 68:657-665.
42. Marden J.H., Waage J.K. Escalated damselfly territorial contests are energetic wars of attrition. Animal Behaviour 1990, 39:954-959.
43. Marden J.H., Fitzhugh G.H., Wolf M.R. From molecules to mating success: integrative biology of muscle maturation. American Zoologist 1998, 38:528-544.
44. Martin P., Bateson P. Measuring Behaviour: an Introductory Guide 1993, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 2nd edn.
45. Mayntz D., Raubenheimer D., Salomon M., Toft S., Simpson S.J. Nutrient-specific foraging in invertebrate predators. Science 2005, 307:111-112.
46. Moret Y., Schmid-Hempel P. Survival for immunity: the price of immune system activation for bumblebee workers. Science 2000, 290:1166-1168.
47. Pascual C., Sánchez A., Zenteno E., Cuzon G., Gabriela G., Brito R., Gelabert R., Hidalgo E., Rosas C. Biochemical, physiological, and immunological changes during starvation in juveniles of Litopenaeus vannamei. Aquaculture 2006, 251:416-429.
48. Plaistow S.J., Siva-Jothy M.T. Energetic constraints and male mate-securing in the damselfly Calopteryx splendens xanthostoma (Charpentier). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 1996, 263:1233-1239.
49. Povey S., Cotter S.C., Simpson S.J., Lee K.P., Wilson K. Can the protein cost of bacterial resistance be offset by altered feeding behaviour?. Journal of Animal Ecology 2009, 78:459-467.
50. R Development Core Team R: a Language and Environment for Statistical Computing 2009, R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. http://www.R-project.org.
51. Rantala M.J., Honkavaara J., Suhonen J. Immune system activation interacts with territory-holding potential and increases predation of the damselfly Calopteryx splendens by birds. Oecologia 2010, 163:825-832.
52. Raubenheimer D., Simpson S.J. Nutritional pharmecology: doses, nutrients, toxins, and medicines. Integrative and Comparative Biology 2009, 49:329-337.
53. Schmid-Hempel P. Evolutionary ecology of insect immune defenses. Annual Review of Entomology 2005, 50:529-551.
54. Serrano-Meneses M.A., Córdoba-Aguilar A., Méndez V., Layen S.J., Székely T. Sexual size dimorphism in the American rubyspot: male body size predicts male competition and mating success. Animal Behaviour 2007, 73:987-997.
55. Sheldon B.C., Verhulst S. Ecological immunology: costly parasite defences and trade-offs in evolutionary ecology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 1996, 11:317-321.
56. Siva-Jothy M.T., Thompson J.W. Short term nutrient deprivation affects immune function. Physiological Entomology 2002, 27:206-212.
57. Söderhäll K., Hall L. Lipopolysaccharide-induced activation of prophenoloxidase activating system in crayfish haemocyte lysate. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1984, 797:99-104.
58. Srygley R.B., Lorch P.D., Simpson S.J., Sword G. Immediate protein dietary effects on movement and the generalized immunocompetence of migrating Mormon crickets Anabrus simplex (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Ecological Entomology 2009, 34:663-668.
59. Suhonen J., Rantala M.J., Honkavaara J. Territoriality in odonates. Dragonflies and Damselflies: Model Organisms for Ecological and Evolutionary Research 2008, 203-218. Oxford University Press, Oxford. A. Córdoba-Aguilar (Ed.).
60. Villalba J.J., Provenza F.D. Self-medication and homeostatic behaviour in herbivores: learning about the benefits of nature's pharmacy. Animal 2007, 1:1360-1370.
61. Weers P.M.M., Ryan R.O. Apolipophorin III: role model apolipoprotein. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2006, 36:231-240.
62. Zanotto F.P., Simpson S.J., Raubenheimer D. The regulation of growth by locusts through post-ingestive compensation for variation of the levels of dietary protein and carbohydrate. Physiological Entomology 1993, 18:425-434.
63. Zuur A.F., Ieno E.N., Elphick C.S. A protocol for data exploration to avoid common statistical problems. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 2010, 1:3-14.