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Giuseppe Bagatto Louise C. Paquette Joseph D. Shorthouse 《Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata》1996,79(1):111-117
We examined how leaf galls, induced by the cynipid wasp Phanacis taraxaci, influence the partitioning of photoassimilates within the host, the common dandelion, Taraxacum officinale. Galled and ungalled plants were exposed to 14CO2 and the labelled photoassimilates accumulating within galls and other parts of the host were measured. During the growth phase of the gall they were physiological sinks for photoassimilates, accumulating 9% to 70% of total carbon produced by the host, depending upon the number of galls per plant. High levels of 14C assimilation in the leaves of galled plants compared to controls, suggest that galls actively redirect carbon resources from unattacked leaves of their host plant. This represents a significant drain on the carbon resources of the host, which increases with the number and size of galls per plant. Active assimilation of 14C by the gall is greatest in the growth phase and is several orders of magnitude lower in the maturation phase. This finding is consistent with physiological and anatomical changes that occur during the two phases of gall development and represents a key developmental strategy by cynipids to ensure adequate food resources before larval growth begins. 相似文献
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Andrea Battisti Isadora Benvegnù Fernanda Colombari Robert A. Haack 《Agricultural and Forest Entomology》2014,16(1):75-79
- The Asian chestnut gall wasp Dryocosmus kuriphilus Yasumatsu (Hymenoptera Cynipidae) is an invasive species in chestnut forests and orchards in many parts of the world.
- Nuts produced by the European chestnut (Castanea sativa Miller) are important in human food and culture, and as a component in food webs in forest ecosystems.
- Severe infestations are reported to reduce nut yield, although precise data are lacking because of large natural year‐to‐year variability in yield.
- The recent colonization of chestnut orchards in north‐eastern Italy, where nut yield has been continuously and precisely recorded for several years, offered an opportunity to calculate the impact of gall wasp infestation level on yield.
- The nut yield of C. sativa chestnut trees was negatively related to the gall wasp infestation level, with losses as high as 80% being reported when the number of current‐year galls was above six galls per 50‐cm twig.
- Yield losses can be explained by direct and indirect factors related to gall formation, and a fuller understanding of the mechanisms involved could identify possible mitigation measures.
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Fredrik Ronquist 《Evolution; international journal of organic evolution》1994,48(2):241-266
A new term, agastoparasitism, is proposed for parasitism among closely related species. Cynipid inquilines are typical agastoparasites. They cannot induce galls; instead their larvae live inside the galls formed by other cynipids. As in many other groups of agastoparasites, there are two competing hypotheses for the evolutionary origin of cynipid inquilines: either they arose from one of their cynipid hosts, and later radiated to exploit other gall-inducing cynipids (monophyletic origin), or they arose repeatedly, each inquiline from its host (polyphyletic origin). These hypotheses for the origin of cynipid inquilines were tested by a phylogenetic analysis of representative species of cynipid gall inducers and inquilines based on adult morphological characters. The analysis supported the monophyly of the inquilines and indicated an origin from gall inducers related to the genus Diastrophus, one of the current host groups. To examine whether the result of the analysis was influenced by convergent similarities among inquilines because of their similar mode of life, all putative apomorphies shared by some or all of the inquilines but not occurring in any of the gall inducers were removed. Despite this, the phylogenetic conclusions essentially remained the same, that is, the support for inquiline monophyly was not caused by convergent evolution. Based on these results, adaptive aspects of the evolutionary origin and maintenance of cynipid inquilinism are discussed, as well as general patterns in the evolution of agastoparasitism. 相似文献
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Bess Hardwick Riikka Kaartinen Martti Koponen Tomas Roslin 《Insect Conservation and Diversity》2016,9(1):49-62
- 'Conservation planning and ecological analyses require large‐scale data on species’ abundance and distribution. We describe a national effort to quickly establish the distributions of taxa with hard‐to‐identify adults but easily identifiable larval stages: cynipid gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Cynipini) on oak (Quercus robur).
- The survey was implemented by volunteers across 239 sites over 687 km of latitude. It yielded 10 523 galls, which were identified by specialists. The material revealed two species new to Finland and the national distributions and local abundances of 16 species.
- The likelihood of finding a given species was significantly affected by the visual apparency of its galls. This suggests that some cryptic generations may have been missed in the sampling.
- At the national level, our study exposed systematic changes in the species richness of insect taxa associated with a patchily distributed host plant towards its range margin. Species’ incidences decline as host trees grow increasingly scattered within the landscape.
- From a conservation perspective, the data increased eight‐fold the known records of gall wasps from Finland, and informed the first assessment of national threat status of these taxa.
- Our study reveals how the efforts of the public may be efficiently harnessed for revealing the current status of poorly known taxa. In addition to delivering a first survey of the target taxa, and of factors affecting their distribution, such ‘citizen science’ may generate a permanent base of enthusiasts for the future monitoring of changes and trends.
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Trypoxylon is a genus of solitary crabronid wasps whose populationgenetics is poorly known. The purpose of the present study was to investigate thegenetic variation and differentiation among five populations of Trypoxylonalbitarse, a species widely distributed throughout the Neotropics, withrecords from Panama to northern Argentina. Eight species-specific microsatellite lociwere used for genotyping 96 adult wasps (one female per nest) sampled at five sitesin Brazil. The analysis of allelic richness and private alleles indicated highgenetic diversity in the populations sampled. Pairwise comparisons using theFst and Dest indices revealed significant differentiation for all, but one pair ofpopulations. Fst, Dest, AMOVA and assignment test values pointed to inter-population differentiation.Additionally, the analysis of population structure using Bayesian and PCA methodscharacterized two alternative genetic groups. The Mantel test indicated nocorrelation between genetic and geographic distances. Despite evidence ofconsiderable dispersal capacity for T. albitarse, the data indicatelow to moderate population structuring in this species. 相似文献
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《Journal of Plant Interactions》2013,8(1):29-36
Abstract We studied the structure of newly found entomogenous galls in three Indian species of Selaginella, and the biochemical changes during gall development as well as their seasonal abundances in 10 squares of 1.5 m2 under two differing habitat conditions, open and covered. Adult wasps (Cynipidae) initiate two types of gall formation by oviposition, spherical galls on vegetative shoots and elongated, club-shaped strobilar galls on reproductive shoots. Galls are anatomically and biochemically different from the unaffected shoots. Vegetative shoot apices bear more galls (84.6%) than reproductive shoot apices (15.4%). Gall frequency is significantly higher in covered (94.8%) than in open habitat (5.2%), and its seasonal peak occurs earlier in the former (43.1% during the rainy season) than in latter habitat (52.8% in autumn). We discuss the relationship between relative species density and gall seasonality as well as the possible role of certain environmental factors that make covered habitats more favorable to the gall inducer. 相似文献
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Bo Stille 《Biochemical Systematics and Ecology》1984,12(4):411-413
The value of electrophoretic analysis of enzymes as an aid in connecting a morphologically deviating form to one of several possible species is dependent on the proportion of shared enzyme loci between the forms. In order to determine this proportion for the different instars of the parthenogenetic gall wasp Diplolepis rosae, 16 different enzyme systems were analysed. Out of the 37 loci detected, 25 (68%) were active in all instars. The larvae, pupae, and imagines had two, one and five unique loci, respectively. Larvae and pupae shared four loci not expressed in the imagines. In the ten enzymes analysed for comparison of males and females a total of 22 loci were detected, 21 found in both sexes and one unique to the females. The difference in isozyme pattern was found to be much more pronounced between pupa and imago than between larva and pupa. The chance to find a locus in an instar when already detected in another was calculated to 87%. If this estimate is valid for other forms within species, differential activity should not present a problem when electrophoretic analysis is used in order to connect such forms. 相似文献
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Amanda K. Weaver Glen Ray Hood Michael Foster Scott P. Egan 《Ecology and evolution》2020,10(18):10207-10218
Complex interactions within multitrophic communities are fundamental to the evolution of individual species that reside within them. One common outcome of species interactions are fitness trade‐offs, where traits adaptive in some circumstances are maladaptive in others. Here, we identify a fitness trade‐off between fecundity and survival in the cynipid wasp Callirhytis quercusbatatoides that induces multichambered galls on the stem of its host plant Quercus virginiana. We first quantified this trade‐off in natural populations by documenting two relationships: a positive association between the trait gall size and fecundity, as larger galls contain more offspring, and a negative association between gall size and survival, as larger galls are attacked by birds at a higher rate. Next, we performed a field‐based experimental evolution study where birds were excluded from the entire canopy of 11 large host trees for five years. As a result of the five‐year release from avian predators, we observed a significant shift to larger galls per tree. Overall, our study demonstrates how two opposing forces of selection can generate stabilizing selection on a critical phenotypic trait in wild populations, and how traits can evolve rapidly in the predicted direction when conditions change. 相似文献
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FREDRIK RONQUIST JOSÉ LUIS NIEVES-ALDREY 《Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society》2001,133(4):483-494
Larvae of the parasitic wasp family Figitidae develop as internal parasitoids of other endopterygote insect larvae. The hosts are typically dipteran larvae living in other microhabitats but the earliest figitids probably attacked gall-inhabiting hymenopteran larvae. Here, we formally describe a new genus (Parnips) and subfamily (Parnipinae) for a species that is likely to be a surviving representative of these early gall-associated figitids. The species, P. nigripes , has been reared repeatedly from galls inside the seed capsules of annual poppies (Papaver dubium and P. rhoeas) in the Mediterranean region together with the gall inducer Barbotinia oraniensis belonging to the Cynipidae, the sister group of Figitidae. Parnips nigripes is strikingly cynipid-like and was first assumed to be a cynipid gall inducer of the genus Aulacidea. Phylogenetic analyses have since indicated that the similarity with the Cynipidae is symplesiomorphic and that P. nigripes belongs to the Figitidae, where it forms the sister group of all other extant figitids. Recently, it has also been shown that P. nigripes is a parasitoid of the gall-inducing Barbotinia oraniensis , consistent with its proposed phylogenetic position. Parnips nigripes shares several unusual morphological traits with its host. We speculate that many of these similarities are homologous even though the lineages separated at least 83 million years ago. 相似文献
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Umberto Bernardo Luigi Iodice Raffaele Sasso Valerio A. Tutore Pasquale Cascone Emilio Guerrieri 《Agricultural and Forest Entomology》2013,15(1):65-76
- 1 The cynipid gall wasp Dryocosmus kuriphilus Yasumatsu (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) is an invasive wasp in Europe and is one of the major pests of chestnuts worldwide. An investigation of this cynipid was started in Campania, Southern Italy, in 2008, with the aim of providing guidelines for its sustainable control.
- 2 The number of larvae/gall increased in the second year of colonization relative to the first one but thereafter decreased in the third year of colonization, whereas the volume of the galls after the initial increase in the second year of colonization became stable. Adult emergence generally peaked between the middle of June and July.
- 3 The only reliable method for assessing the presence of the pest at its earliest stage was through dissecting the buds because oviposition scars on the buds tended to disappear during the winter.
- 4 Yellow traps were shown to be an effective method for assessing the emergence of cynipid adults and could potentially be used to time chemical applications in those cases in which this control method is feasible.
- 5 No correlation was recorded between the relative durations of the final stages (pupae, pharate adults and emergence).
- 6 Possible control strategies for this invasive pest are discussed.