Cotesia kariyai larvae need an anchor to emerge from the host Pseudaletia separata
Cotesia kariyai larvae need an anchor to emerge from the host Pseudaletia separata
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DOI:
10.1002/arch.20189
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发表时间:
2007-09-01
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
Harvey, J. A.
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作者:
Nakamatsu, Y.;Tanaka, T.;Harvey, J. A.
Mature larvae of the gregarious encloparositoid Cotesia koriyoi construct cocoons for pupation approximately 10 days after parasitization and emerge from their host Pseudoletio sepoIroto under a long day photo-regime (16181)) at 25 I degrees C. The parositoid larvae make capsules in the host hemoconel just prior to their emergence. These capsules function as "anchors," which enable them to press against the host integument from inside the host. It was predicted that this anchor might be composed of silk proteins secreted from the parositoid larvae, because a previous study showed that the anchor was made up of a glycopiotein and that the silk gland of parasitoid larvae developed from 2nd larval stage. Fibroin-like proteins in C. kariyoi larva mainly consist of two proteins with molecular mosses of the 300.6 and 46.7 kDa estimated by SH-PAGE. The fibrom-like proteins with the some molecular mass were detected from the anchor proteins just prior to parositoid emergemce. These results indicate that the anchor was assembled with fibrion-like proteins and was formed just before parositoid emergence while in the host body cavity. Injection of bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibited the emergence of parositoid larvae from the host because the anchor was decomposed by ttypsin. Trypsin activity in the parasitized host hemolymph increased only after parasitoid emergence.