Effect of tannic acid on the development and resistance of the Gypsy moth Lymantria dispar L. to viral infection
Effect of tannic acid on the development and resistance of the Gypsy moth Lymantria dispar L. to viral infection
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DOI:
10.1134/s1607672906040077
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发表时间:
2006-07
影响因子:
0.8
通讯作者:
V. Martemyanov;S. Bakhvalov;I. Dubovskiy;V. Glupov;N. Salakhutdinov;G. Tolstikov
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作者:
V. Martemyanov;S. Bakhvalov;I. Dubovskiy;V. Glupov;N. Salakhutdinov;G. Tolstikov
MATERIALS AND METHODSThis study was performed with the gypsy moth (L. dispar L., Lepidoptera: Lymantridae) caterpillars. The insects were collected at the egg phase in the natural population and then grown under laboratory conditions. The experiments were performed in spring and summer. The insects were grown either in an artificial nutrient medium in Petri dishes or on birch shoots in rearing cages at 23–25 C under at 16-h light period per day.Forage was treated with 0.9% aqueous solution of tannic acid (Sigma, United States). This concentration corresponds to the content of tannins in birch leaves defoliated in the previous year [7]. Caterpillars of the third instar were infected perorally by finely-dispersated spraying of forage with a viral suspension at a concentration of 107 polyhedrons/ml. Weight of caterpillars was determined by group weighing, and sex was determined by morphological traits of pupae—the structure of the last belly segments [2]. The mortality rate of the insects was expressed as the aggregate percentage of dead caterpillars over the entire period of larval stage. The presence of viral polyhedrons in the body of dead caterpillars was detected with a light microscope.