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BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY
卷 15, 期 6, 页码 507-515出版社
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2014.08.005
关键词
Endosymbionts; Rickettsia; Competition; Bemisia tabaci; Whiteilies; Cotton; Wolbachia; Insect pest; Invasive species
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资金
- United States Department of Agriculture AFRI [2010-03752]
- United States-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund [US-4304-10 R]
- National Science Foundation [DEB-1020460]
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Environmental Biology [1020460] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Inherited intracellular insect endosymbionts may manipulate host reproduction or provide fitness benefits to their hosts in ways that result in their rapid spread throughout a host population. Fitness benefits in particular can result in the increased pest potential of agriculturally important insects. While benefits due to endosymbiont infection have been well studied in laboratory assays, very little is known about how these benefits translate to insect performance in the field. Laboratory experiments have shown that the maternally, inherited bacterial endosymbiont, Rickettsia, increases the fitness of its whitefly host, Be misia tabaci, through improved fecundity, faster development times and female-biased sex ratios. We conducted field population cage studies to determine whether the benefits conferred by Rickettsia to whi tellies in the laboratory were evident on one of its major hosts, cotton, under field conditions in Arizona, LJSA. In cages with either Rickettsia-infected or uninfected whitellies, we observed up to ten-fold higher whitefly egg and nymph densities when whiteflies were Rickettsia-infected compared with uninfected whiteflies throughout the season. We also observed a steep initial increase in Rickettsia frequency in population cages started with either 25% or 50% Rickettsia-infected whiteflies, with the 50% cages approaching fixation within three generations. Using growth rates obtained in the density cages, we calculated and compared an expected trajectory of the frequencies of Rickettsia infection with the observed frequencies. Results showed similar observed and expected frequencies of Rickettsia in the first two (generations, followed by a significantly lower than expected frequency in three of four treattnent/sample combinations at the end of the season. Taken together, these results confirm the patterns of fecundity and population growth observed in laboratory assays, under field conditions, as well as provides preliminary empirical support for a Rickettsia equilibrium frequency of less than 100%. (C) 2014 Gesellschaft fur Okologie. Published by Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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