Effects of the parasitization of a braconid, Apanteles, on the blood of its host, Pieris
Effects of the parasitization of a braconid, Apanteles, on the blood of its host, Pieris
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寄生小蠹科 Apanteles 对其宿主菜粉蝶血液的影响
DOI:
10.1016/0022-1910(74)90064-x
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发表时间:
1974
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
H. Kitano
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作者:
H. Kitano
Parasitization of a braconid wasp,Apanteles glomeratus, of larvae of a common cabbage butterfly,Pieris rapae crucivora, caused changes in differential haemocyte count (DHC), total haemocyte count (THC), and encapsulative capacity against dead eggs ofApantelesin the fourth and fifth instar host larvae.However, no correlation could be found between the number ofApanteleseggs deposited and THC of the middle fourth instar host larvae or between the number of parasitoid larvae and specific gravity of the haemolymph from the late fifth instar host larvae.From the changes in DHC and in THC of both non-parasitized and parasitizedPierislarvae, an increase in the number of plasmatocytes of non-parasitizedPierislarvae in the early fourth instar period was supposed to be due to transformation of prohaemocytes into plasmatocytes, and a low population of plasmatocytes of parasitized larvae in the comparable period was assumed to be due to a suppression of transformation of prohaemocytes by some factor released from the parasitoid eggs.Failure of the parasitized fourth instarPierislarvae to encapsulate injected dead eggs ofApantelesindicated that the parasitoid embryos were, in some way, actively inhibiting the encapsulation reactions of the host.The increase in THC of the parasitized fifth instar larvae could not be ascribed to a decrease in the volume of host haemolymph. Rather it could be interpreted by a suppression of adhesive capacity of haemocytes in the host haemocoel to tissue surfaces.Reduced encapsulative capacity of the parasitized fifth instar larvae might be attributed either to a depression of the adhesive activity of plasmatocytes resulting from a depletion of energy source for haemocytes in the host haemolymph by parasitization, or from an active suppression of adhesiveness of the plasmatocytes by secretions from ‘giant cells’ (teratocytes) originated from the parasitoid.