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The influence of a parasitoid's response to temperature on the performance of a tri‐trophic food web 下载免费PDF全文
SANDRA FLORES‐MEJIA JEAN‐FRÉDÉRIC GUAY VALÉRIE FOURNIER CONRAD CLOUTIER 《Ecological Entomology》2016,41(4):431-441
1. Food web interactions are complex and can respond to environmental changes in unpredictable ways that do not necessarily equate to the individual responses of each of the components of the food web. 2. Biomass can be used to evaluate the productivity of the three individual trophic levels, in the form of the Net Generational Productivity (NGP) and the performance of the entire food web with the newly developed tri‐trophic food web performance ratio (?3t). 3. These parameters were used to evaluate the performance of nine plant‐based tri‐trophic food webs composed of: potato, Solanum tuberosum L. and two cultivars of bell pepper Capsicum annuum L; three biotypes of the aphid Macrosiphum euphorbiae Thomas (Hemiptera: Aphididae) and the parasitoid wasp Aphidius ervi (Haliday) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). 4. The NGP showed that the thermal window for biomass productivity for each trophic level is different and is reduced by approximately 4 °C with respect to the inferior level. Aphidius ervi had the smallest thermal window for biomass productivity and development. 5. The present results showed that the performance (?3t) of the tested food webs is influenced in a top‐down fashion, where the intra‐specific variation of the food web, namely the host plant, played a major role in the productivity of each of the subsequent trophic levels. 6. The ?3t suggested that exposure to high and low temperatures might severely affect the effectiveness of A. ervi as a biocontrol agent of the aphid M. euphorbiae in bell pepper and potato crops. 相似文献
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FRÉDÉRIC SÈBE THIERRY AUBIN RAYMOND NOWAK OLIVIER SÈBE GAËLLE PERRIN PASCAL POINDRON 《Bioacoustics.》2013,22(3):341-355
ABSTRACT In domestic sheep Ovis aries, the mother and the young display a preferential bond for each other that relies on multimodal inter-individual recognition. Lambs show a preference for their own dam shortly after birth, and this is important for their survival. The role of acoustic cues in this early preference for the mother is not clear. The aim of the present work was to analyze the timing of acoustic recognition of the mother and to identify the physical parameters used in the recognition of maternal bleats by the lamb. In a first study, we investigated the ability of lambs to discriminate between the bleats of their own mother and an alien equivalent mother in a two-choice test. Both ewes were hidden behind a canvas sheet and lambs were not allowed to approach the dams closer than 1 m, thus preventing visual as well as olfactory perception. Tests were conducted 12 hr, 24 hr or 48 hr after birth (n=19 or 20/group). An indication of vocal discrimination was already present at 24 hr and at 48 hr lambs spent significantly more time near their mother than near the alien dam. In a second step, we investigated which physical parameters of the bleats were important for recognition. For this, we conducted playback experiments with modified bleats at two weeks postpartum. Ours results show that lambs pay attention to a combination of various time, energy and frequency parameters: timbre (distribution of energy within the spectrum), amplitude and frequency modulations appear to be the most important parameters encoding the individual signature. We conclude that vocal recognition between the ewe and her lamb plays an important role in the display of preferential mother-young bond from very early on. Our studies also demonstrate that the encoding of the individual signature is not limited to the frequency domain but rather involves a multiparametric encoding process. 相似文献
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Competence of Genetic Transformation correlated with the Occurrence of Fimbriae in Three Bacterial Species 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
THE involvement of bacterial fimbriae (pili) in some cases of phage infection and in bacterial conjugation has been known or presumed for some years1. Studies in our laboratories show that fimbriae are also associated with genetic transformation in several bacterial species. 相似文献
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AIMS: The aim of this study was to identify and characterize heat stable proteinases of psychrotrophic proteolytic bacteria isolated from raw milk. METHODS AND RESULTS: A strain of Klebsiella oxytoca producing a high proteolytic activity when cultured on milk was isolated. Maximum proteolytic activity was observed at the stationary phase during growth on milk or casein-peptone broth. The bacterium demonstrated the capability to grow at 7 degrees C, classified as psychrotrophic. The crude enzyme showed optimum activity at 37 degrees C, and pH 5.0 and 7.0. The proteinase was very resistant to heat, maintaining 74% of initial activity after incubation at 142 degrees C. CONCLUSIONS: A heat stable protease of a psychrotrophic strain of K. oxytoca was identified and partially characterized. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY: Thermal stable proteases may constitute a serious problem to ultra-high temperature (UHT) processed milk, leading to undesirable physical and sensory alterations. 相似文献
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