Journal of Applied Biological Sciences | |
Effects of Dietary Fatty Acids on the Fecundity of the Endoparasitoid Pimpla turionellae L. (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) | |
Ekrem ERGİN1  Z. Ülya NURULLAHOĞLU1  | |
关键词: Pimpla turionellae; nutrition; synthetic diet; fatty acids; egg hatching.; | |
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学科分类:生物科学(综合) | |
来源: Nobel Bilim ve Arasirma Merkezi/Nobel Science and Research Cente | |
【 摘 要 】
Synovigenicparasitoidsrelyonadultfeedingtoincreasetheirreproductivepotential.Here,weexaminedtheimpactoffattyacidcompositionintheartificialdietonthefecundityandhatchabilityoftheendoparasitoidPimplaturionellaeL.adultfemales.Femaleswereprovidedwithnaturaldiet(honeyandhostpupae),abasicchemically-definedsyntheticdiet,orfivedifferentsyntheticdietswithoutpalmitic,stearic,oleicacid,linoleicacidorlinolenicacidseparately,orallfattyacids.Theeffectsofdietaryfattyaciddeficiencyontotalandage-dependentfecundityandhatchabilityoftheparasitoidwereinvestigated.Femalesfedwithnaturaldietlaid27.4eggsthroughoutaperiodof15d,and78.96%oftheseeggshatched.Thehighestfecunditywasobservedwithfemalesfedwithbasicsyntheticdiet,astearic-andpalmiticacid-freedietoranoleicacid-freediet.Femalesprovidedwithlinoleicacid-andallfattyacids-freedietshadthelowestfecundity.Thehighestegghatching(84.76%)wasobservedwithfemalesfedwiththebasicsyntheticdietwhereasfattyacid-freedietreducedegghatchingto57.05%.Age-dependentfecundityincreasedfromday20to28andthendecreasedonday31.Egghatchabilityoffemalesprovidedwithlinoleicorlinolenicacid-freedietsweresimilartothosefedwithallfattyacid-freediet.Relativetobasicsyntheticdiet,linoleicorlinolenicacid-freeandallfattyacids-freedietssignificantlyreducedtotalanddiet-dependentegghatchability.Theseresultshaveimportantimplicationsforunderstandingboththelipidallocationstrategyandtheimpactoffattyacidsaloneandincombinationonreproductionofthisparasitoid,whichareusedasimportantbiologicalcontrolagent.
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