不同棉蚜种群对棉花和黄瓜的适合度分化

通过室内转接试验,研究来源于越冬寄主花椒、木槿、石榴和夏寄主棉花、黄瓜共5个棉蚜Aphids gossypii Glover种群对棉花和黄瓜的适合度。结果表明:花椒棉蚜、木槿棉蚜、棉花棉蚜转接到棉花上的成虫留居率和种群繁殖率均明显地高于黄瓜;黄瓜棉蚜转接到棉花上的成虫留居率和种群繁殖率均显著地低于黄瓜;石榴棉蚜转接到棉花上的种群繁殖率显著低于黄瓜,但成虫留居率在2种寄主之间没有明显差异。     

棉蚜种下变型的数值分类研究

分别对在四种夏寄主及棉花两个生育期和三个温度下的棉蚜的14个形态特征进行了种下数值分类研究。通过聚类分析和高氏距离分析,结果表明：夏寄主四季豆、西葫芦、棉花苗期的绿色蚜和黄色蚜间及蕾期的触角6节蚜型和5节蚜型间都无明显差异。但马铃薯蚜与棉花苗蚜、棉花苗蚜与伏蚜间的形态特征存在相当明显的分离,室内温度达30℃时棉蚜的形态特征与伏蚜相似。并分析出可用7个主要形态特征区分这些种下变型。     

棉蚜种下变型的数值分类研究

 分别对在四种夏寄主及棉花两个生育期和三个温度下的棉蚜的14个形态特征进行了种下数值 分类研究。通过聚类分析和高氏距离分析,结果表明：夏寄主四季豆、西葫芦、棉花苗期 的绿色蚜和黄色蚜间及蕾期的触角6节蚜型和5节蚜型间都无明显差异。但马铃薯蚜与棉花苗 蚜、棉花苗蚜与伏蚜间的形态特征存在相当明显的分离,室内温度达30℃时棉蚜的形态特征 与伏蚜相似。并分析出可用7个主要形态特征区分这些种下变型。     

棉蚜(Aphis gossypii)种群寄主分化和季节分化的微卫星引物PCR研究

通过对棉蚜群体进行室外观察、室内培养和分子遗传标记的DNA多态性分析（用3个微卫星序列为引物进行PCR）等研究,结果表明：1、冬寄主（木槿、石榴和花椒）上棉蚜种群分化较小（种群相似笥指数在0.833-0.917之间）,而冬寄主种群和夏寄主（棉花和南瓜）种群之间有较大的分化（种群相似性指数在0.589-0.756之间）。2、棉蚜自然种群是由体色不变的生物型（干母为黄色,其后代始终为黄色）和体色可变型生物型（干母为绿色,其后代有绿色和黄色两种体色）组成的混合种群。3、黄色小型蚜（伏蚜）来源于混合类群,但主要来自绿色干母多代选择分化的黄色后代,也有小部分可能来处在干母黄色的体色不变型。     

不同寄主植物与棉蚜酯酶活性的关系

通过测定不同越冬寄主植物棉蚜Aphis gossypii种群α-乙酸萘酯（α-NA）酯酶的活力,结果表明：山东高密棉田棉蚜种群酯酶活力是北京花椒棉蚜酯酶活力的2.4倍,石榴、木槿上棉蚜酯酶活力是花椒棉蚜酯酶活力的1.3-1.5倍,不同寄主植物棉蚜α-NA酯酶和β-NA酯酶的频率分布表明：鼠李、花椒棉蚜的α-NA酯酶频率分布范围较集中,酯酶活力（每0.033头蚜虫的OD值）小于0.10时的频率分别为70%和62%,其个体累积率达50%时的酯酶活性（EF50）分别为0.08和0.085(每0.033头蚜虫的OD值）;石榴、木槿和棉苗上α-NA酯酶频率分别为25%、31%和45%,其EF50分别的0.154、0.1368和0.1138,酯酶活力明显比鼠李和花椒棉蚜高;高密棉蚜为4%,EF50为0.2113,频率分布范围较宽。β-NA酯酶的频率分布,鼠李、花椒、木槿和棉苗上棉蚜酯酶活力（每0.033头蚜虫的OD值）小于0.10时为52%-62%的个体,EF50分别为0.098、0.084、0.102和0.091,寄主之间差异不大,而石榴和高密棉蚜分别为23%和3%,EF50分别为0.135和0.2136,与其它4个寄主有明显差异。     

棉花型和黄瓜型棉蚜对寄主植物的适合度

采用寄主转换建立生命表及触角电位 (EAG)方法比较了棉蚜两寄主专化型 (棉花型和黄瓜型 )对不同夏季作物的适合度。结果表明 ,棉花型蚜转到黄瓜上及黄瓜型蚜转接到棉花上均不能正常产仔繁殖和建立种群。两种蚜型均不能在茄子和苋菜上建立种群。黄瓜型蚜能在豇豆上建立种群 ,但棉花型蚜不能 ,表现出两种寄主型棉蚜对夏寄主利用上存在显著差异。受棉蚜为害 12～ 36 h后的黄瓜或棉花植株仍不适合于棉花型或黄瓜型蚜 ,表现出黄瓜型蚜不能在被棉花型蚜为害过的棉株上正常存活和繁殖 ,棉花型蚜也不能在被黄瓜型蚜为害过的黄瓜苗上存活和繁殖。两种寄主型蚜对不同寄主叶片丙酮提取物的触角电位表明 ,黄瓜型蚜对棉花、哈密瓜和马铃薯叶片提取物的反应显著强于棉花型蚜 ,而对黄瓜和甜瓜叶片提取物的反应上两种蚜型差异不显著。文中同时对棉花型和黄瓜型棉蚜产生的生态机制进行了讨论。     

棉蚜DNA多态性RAPD PCR分析(英文)

应用RAPD PCR技术研究了不同寄主和不同季节棉蚜的DNA多态性。从 2 0种随机引物中筛选出 3种引物 ,用它们的扩增结果进行Nei的遗传距离计算 ,并根据遗传距离对所研究的棉蚜种群做聚类分析。结果表明南京地区花椒上的棉蚜与其它 4种寄主上的棉蚜在DNA水平有明显的分化。聚类分析表明 ,棉蚜季节性种群可分为 3大类群 ,即春、秋季黄色型 ,春、秋季绿色型和黄色小型蚜 (伏蚜 )。而小型蚜的遗传关系与春、秋季绿色型最为接近。     

不同生物型棉蚜对夏寄主葫芦科作物的选择

于2008、2009年连续两年采用模拟田间自然扩散法,系统地研究了棉花型棉蚜和甜瓜型棉蚜有翅蚜对11种夏寄主的选择性.结果表明,棉花型棉蚜对杂交葫芦、小西葫芦表现出强选择性及适应性,而对香瓜、黄瓜、西瓜及甜瓜均不选择,或即使选择其若蚜在其上也不能存活;甜瓜型棉蚜对甜瓜、香瓜、南瓜、黄西葫芦、大西葫芦、杂交葫芦等均表现较强选择性,而对棉花及小西葫芦表现不选择.但是,甜瓜型棉蚜在小西葫芦上也能产若蚜并存活.从而证明小西葫芦是两种寄主型棉蚜的共同寄主,有可能成为两者相互转换的桥梁寄主.     

棉蚜与其天敌种群分布格局的关系

对棉蚜与其多种天敌在数、时、空方面关系的研究表明,龟纹瓢虫与棉蚜种群数量极相关,两者发生数量高峰期和低谷期均是同步的,龟纹瓢虫对棉蚜种群有明显的控制作用,龟纹瓢虫、草间小黑株及棉蚜种群的三维空间格乙为聚集型,棉蚜和草间小黑蚜个体间互相吸引,龟纹瓢虫个体间互相排斥。     

5个棉蚜组织蛋白酶B基因克隆及在不同寄主专化型中的表达分析

昆虫组织蛋白酶B在昆虫代谢中发挥着重要作用。本研究从棉蚜Aphis gossypii Glover的转录组数据库中挑选Cath B并克隆得到全长cDNA序列,使用qRT-PCR分析这些基因在不同寄主专化型棉蚜不同龄期中的相对表达量。通过分析棉蚜体内5个高表达组织蛋白酶B基因不同发育阶段的表达谱,比较了不同专化型棉蚜在寄主转换之后的表达差异。研究发现,这5个基因在不同龄期不同寄主上均表达。棉花型棉蚜在棉花寄主上不同基因间的表达各不相同。黄瓜型棉蚜在黄瓜Cucumis sativus L.上AgCb-1、AgCb-2、AgCb-3基因均在成蚜时期表达量相对较高,AgCb-4、AgCb-5基因表达量则与之相反。分别将棉花型棉蚜和黄瓜型棉蚜转接到西葫芦Cucurbita pepo L.上后,棉花型棉蚜AgCb-1、AgCb-4基因和黄瓜型棉蚜AgCb-1、AgCb-2、AgCb-3基因均在成蚜不同时期的表达量显著大于转接前。结果表明：AgCb-1、AgCb-2、AgCb-3、AgCb-4、AgCb-5基因表达量伴随着棉蚜的生长发育以及寄主的转换,表现出不同的差异。说明组织蛋白酶在棉蚜对寄主植物的适应性过程中可能发挥作用。     

Seasonal Alterations in Host Range and Fidelity in the Polyphagous Mirid Bug,Apolygus lucorum (Heteroptera: Miridae)

In herbivorous insects, host plant switching is commonly observed and plays an important role in their annual life cycle. However, much remains to be learned about seasonal host switching of various pestiferous arthropods under natural conditions. From 2006 until 2012, we assessed Apolygus lucorum (Meyer-Dür) host plant use in successive spring, summer and winter seasons at one single location (Langfang, China). Data were used to quantify changes in host plant breadth and host fidelity between seasons. Host fidelity of A. lucorum differed between seasons, with 87.9% of spring hosts also used in the summer and 36.1% of summer hosts used in winter. In contrast, as little as 25.6% host plant species were shared between winter and spring. Annual herbaceous plants are most often used for overwintering, while perennial woody plants are relatively important for initial population build-up in the spring. Our study contributes to an improved understanding of evolutionary interactions between A. lucorum and its host plants and lays the groundwork for the design of population management strategies for this important pest in myriad crops.     

Sex-biased parasitism,seasonality and sexual size dimorphism in desert rodents

We investigated seasonality of gender differences in the patterns of flea infestation in nine rodent species to test if sex-biased parasitism in terms of mean abundance, species richness, prevalence and the level of aggregation (a) varies among hosts and between seasons, and (b) is linked to sexual size dimorphism. Sexual size differences were significant in both summer and winter in Acomys cahirinus, Gerbillus pyramidum and Meriones crassus, and in winter only in Acomys russatus, Gerbillus dasyurus, Gerbillus nanus and Sekeetamys calurus. Sexual size dimorphism was male biased except for A. russatus in which it was female biased. Manifestation of sexual differences in flea infestation was different among hosts between seasons. A significant effect of sex on mean flea abundance was found in six hosts, on mean flea species richness in five hosts and on prevalence in two hosts. Male-biased parasitism was found in summer in one host only and in winter in five hosts. Female-biased parasitism occurred in winter in A. russatus. Gender differences in the slopes of the regressions of log-transformed variances against log-transformed mean abundances occurred in three hosts. No relationship was found between sexual size dimorphism and any parasitological parameter in any season using both conventional regressions and the method of independent contrasts. Our results suggest that sex-biased parasitism is a complicated phenomenon that involves several different mechanisms.     

Are primary woody hosts ‘island refuges’ for host‐alternating aphids and important for colonization of local cereals?

Only few studies are available dealing with the relation between winter host density and spatial distribution and spring colonization of winter cereals by the host‐alternating cereal aphid species Rhopalosiphum padi and Metopolophium dirhodum. Large‐scale studies in climatically different agroecosystems in Germany from 2004 to 2006 revealed for R. padi and M. dirhodum larger spring/summer populations in landscapes with higher densities of winter hosts. A small‐scale study was performed in winter wheat fields adjacent to a large hedge with several typical winter hosts plants, bird cherry (Prunus padus) and wild rose species (Rosa spp.) to indentify distance effects (0–8, 8–24 and 24–60 m). Weekly measurements of aphid density between May to July showed significantly higher densities of R. padi compared with those of other aphids. Statistical analysis (Tukey–Kramer test and regression analyses) revealed significant gradients from the hedge to the field centre for R. padi and M. dirhodum. In comparative studies, winged R. padi from winter and adjacent summer hosts were genotyped using four microsatellite markers. The results showed that individuals from a certain winter host were not genetically similar with individuals from neighbouring summer hosts; it, therefore, seems that winter host clones did not significantly contribute to population built‐up in cereal fields over short distances. It could be concluded that on a regional scale, the density of sources for early migrants of R. padi is important for colonization intensity of surrounding summer hosts, but that the high local movement intensity and the relative small proportion of aphids that could be analysed in such tracking studies are blurring close spatial relations within short time periods.     

Relevance of local scale factors in winter host-plant selection by the rice pest Tibraca limbativentris (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)

Tibraca limbativentris is a major stink bug pest in paddies of the Neotropics. In Argentina, its populations overwinter in twelve host-plant species that occur inside rice fields. However, it's unknown if there are local scale variations in the abundance of T. limbativentris. Likewise, the role of host-plant community composition (H_pCC) as a factor involved in the winter host-plant selection by the insects is poorly understood. The aims of this work were (a) to assess variations at local scale on the abundance of T. limbativentris in the context of winter H_pCC and incidence of entomopathogenic fungi (EPFs) and (b) to assess the abundance of T. limbativentris considering the relationship between the height of plants of rice cultivars present in target sites during summer, and the height of the hosts selected by T. limbativentris during winter in grassland adjoining rice plots. Sampling was carried out during summer–winter in different commercial rice fields, to assess winter abundance of T. limbativentris, H_pCC in grasslands adjacent to rice plots and incidence of EPFs. Height measurements of winter hosts and summer rice plants in target plots were taken. Our results show that H_pCC differed at the local scale, with significant differences in stink bug abundance between winter hosts in each site. Also, we found differences in the action of EPFs species recorded on the insects and variations in plant height between host species. A positive correlation was obtained between the height of the different rice cultivars used during spring–summer in target sites and the height of the hosts selected by T. limbativentris near to these plots during winter. This shows that the height of the rice cultivar could be a factor related to the local selection of winter hosts by T. limbativentris. These results serve as a framework for future research, contributing to integrated pest management for target sites.     

Large‐scale gene expression reveals different adaptations of Hyalopterus persikonus to winter and summer host plants

Host alternation, an obligatory seasonal shifting between host plants of distant genetic relationship, has had significant consequences for the diversification and success of the superfamily of aphids. However, the underlying molecular mechanism remains unclear. In this study, the molecular mechanism of host alternation was explored through a large‐scale gene expression analysis of the mealy aphid Hyalopterus persikonus on winter and summer host plants. More than four times as many unigenes of the mealy aphid were significantly upregulated on summer host Phragmites australis than on winter host Rosaceae plants. In order to identify gene candidates related to host alternation, the differentially expressed unigenes of H. persikonus were compared to salivary gland expressed genes and secretome of Acyrthosiphon pisum. Genes involved in ribosome and oxidative phosphorylation and with molecular functions of heme–copper terminal oxidase activity, hydrolase activity and ribosome binding were potentially upregulated in salivary glands of H. persikonus on the summer host. Putative secretory proteins, such as detoxification enzymes (carboxylesterases and cytochrome P450s), antioxidant enzymes (peroxidase and superoxide dismutase), glutathione peroxidase, glucose dehydrogenase, angiotensin‐converting enzyme, cadherin, and calreticulin, were highly expressed in H. persikonus on the summer host, while a SCP GAPR‐1‐like family protein and a salivary sheath protein were highly expressed in the aphids on winter hosts. These results shed light on phenotypic plasticity in host utilization and seasonal adaptation of aphids.     

Ecological and genetic aspects of grape phylloxera Daktulosphaira vitifoliae (Hemiptera: Phylloxeridae) performance on rootstock hosts

Performance and genetic variability of clonal lineages derived from one Californian and one German population of grape phylloxera, Daktulosphaira vitifoliae Fitch were studied on their natal grape rootstock host and on three novel hosts over four generations in an aseptic dual culture system. The ability of D. vitifoliae to adapt to new hosts was measured by changes in fitness (rm) over four generations. The performance of a given clonal lineage changed over successive generations, depending upon the host plant and the phylloxera group. Analysis of amplified fragment length polymorphism-polymerase chain reaction (AFLP-PCR) banding patterns from 40 individual parthenogenetic D. vitifoliae revealed equal levels of genetic variation both among the four clonal lineages analysed and within the different generations of one lineage. Analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) showed no significant differences between the D. vitifoliae lineages reared on different host plants, nor was a correlation between host performance and genotype found.     

DIATOM EPIPHYTES ON ODONTHALIA FLOCCOSA: THE IMPORTANCE OF EXTENT AND TIMING

The interaction between the epiphytic diatom Isthmia nervosa Kütz and the red alga Odonthalia floccosa (Esp.) Falkenb. was examined in terms of host physiology (photosynthesis and growth), fitness (reproduction and survival), and population dynamics. Most of these characteristics were compared among plants that varied naturally in epiphyte load. Diatom cover was also manipulated in field-deployed containers to study effects on host growth. Increasing levels of epiphytes were correlated with declines in host photosynthesis and growth, and experiments confirmed that reduced growth was directly caused by diatoms. Populations that hosted diatoms throughout the summer contained lower proportions of reproductive plants than did populations colonized in late summer or not epiphytized at all (60% vs. >80%, respectively). Odonthalia with epiphytes experienced greater biomechanical drag when submerged than did unepiphytized individuals of similar size. Despite differences in drag, epiphytized and unepiphytized hosts were equally susceptible to complete mortality (removed with holdfast) relative to partial mortality (shoots broken). In general, higher epiphytism was associated with reduced host performance, and this apparent damage was easier to detect at physiological levels than at population levels. In fact, negative effects of epiphytes were not evident at the population level, and host density and epiphyte load were positively correlated. Based on 4 years of monthly censuses of Odonthalia using marked plants and quadrats, the abundance of Isthmia varies spatially and temporally. Diatoms tend to colonize Odonthalia in late summer, after host growth has stopped and cystocarps and tetraspores have begun to develop. Subsequently, shoots break and plants persist through the winter as shorter perennating basal systems. Life spans were >4 years for some Odonthalia individuals. Many hosts may escape the effects of epiphytes by completing growth and reproduction before diatom colonization.