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Fuelling flight in a parasitic wasp: Which energetic substrate to use?

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Amat, Isabelle Besnard, Sebastien Foray, Vincent [UCL] Pelosse, Perrine Bernstein, Carlos Desouhant, Emmanuel

1. Flight is an energy-demanding behaviour in insects. In parasitic wasps, strategies of nutrient acquisition and allocation, resulting life-history trade-offs and relationships with foraging strategies and resource availability have received much attention. However, despite the ecological importance of dispersal between host and food patches, and the great impact energy diverted to flight should have on lifetime reproductive success, the eco-physiology of flight in parasitoids is poorly understood. 2. The objective of this study is to (i) identify the energetic resources used to fuel flight, and (ii) relate nutrient type and rate of utilisation to selective pressures in terms of resource availability posed by the environment. 3. Using a flight mill and biochemical assays, we compared flight performance and nutrient dynamics during flight between two reproductive modes of the parasitoid Venturia canescens Gravenhorst, which is known to thrive preferentially in contrasted environments (i.e. natural vs. anthropogenic habitat), differing notably in host and food distribution. 4. Biochemical analyses of different nutrient types showed that glycogen is the flight fuel used by this species, yet no significant differences in its dynamics in flight were found between the two reproductive modes. 5. Results suggest that both glycogen quantity and flight performance are related to the diverging ecological conditions experienced by thelytokous and arrhenotokous strains. © 2012 The Royal Entomological Society.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2012
Language Anglais
Journal information "Ecological Entomology" - Vol. 37, no. 6, p. 480-489 (2012)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
issn 0307-6946
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SST/ELI - Earth and Life Institute
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Bibliographic reference Amat, Isabelle ; Besnard, Sebastien ; Foray, Vincent ; Pelosse, Perrine ; Bernstein, Carlos ; et. al. Fuelling flight in a parasitic wasp: Which energetic substrate to use?. In: Ecological Entomology, Vol. 37, no. 6, p. 480-489 (2012)
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