Phoretic specialization on insect herbivores facilitates mite transportation to host plants
Phoretic specialization on insect herbivores facilitates mite transportation to host plants
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昆虫食草动物的游动专门化有利于螨虫运输到寄主植物
DOI:
10.1111/eea.13140
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
1.9
通讯作者:
García‐Robledo, Carlos
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作者:
Bizzarri, Laura;Kuprewicz, Erin K.;Varma, Megana;García‐Robledo, Carlos
Phoresy, the use of another organism for dispersal, is one of the most intriguing commensalistic interactions. The selection of a correct host is fundamental for phoretic organisms to ensure arrival to suitable habitats and to encounter potential mates. This study focuses on a group of phoretic mites in the genusLasioseius(Acari: Blattisociidae). In La Selva Biological Station, a tropical wet forest in Costa Rica,Lasioseiusmites feed on nematodes inside the scrolls formed by the young leaves of their hosts, plants in the order Zingiberales. When leaves expand and unfurl, mites disperse to another rolled leaf by clinging onto ‘rolled‐leaf beetles’, a group of insect herbivores specialized on Zingiberales (generaCephaloleiaandChelobasis; Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). In this study, we determined whetherLasioseiusmites associated withCephaloleia beltiBaly are specialized on this beetle species as a phoretic host. Mites may also be attracted toChelobasis perplexaBaly, sharing the same host plant. Another possibility is thatLasioseiusmites are opportunistic generalists and attach to rolled‐leaf beetle species (e.g.,Cephaloleia dorsalisBaly) that never share host plants with eitherC.beltiorCh.perplexa. In a laboratory setting, we tested whether mites preferred scents from and/or attached to particular beetle species. Scent attraction experiments showed thatLasioseiusmites collected fromC.beltiwere attracted to scents fromC.beltiandCh.perplexa, but were not attracted to scents fromC. dorsalis. Mites collected fromC.beltiattached to bothC.beltiandCh.perplexa,but never toC. dorsalis. In conclusion,Lasioseiusmites are not strict specialists, but are able to detect and attach to beetle species that inhabit their host plant.
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