Aphids Playing Possum – Defensive or Mutualistic Response?
| Autor: | Aleksandra Bilska, Łukasz Depa, Jacek Francikowski, Adrian Masłowski, Aleksandra Wyglenda, Natalia Kaszyca |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0106 biological sciences
Entomology Aphid biology Defence mechanisms food and beverages Zoology adaptation biochemical phenomena metabolism and nutrition biology.organism_classification 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Article ANT fitness Predation 010602 entomology Animal ecology Thanatosis Insect Science Cinara predation Adaptation Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics immobility |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Insect Behavior |
| ISSN: | 1572-8889 0892-7553 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10905-018-9662-4 |
| Popis: | Paper presents the phenomenon of thanatosis or death-feigning in selected aphids species. This specific reaction was predominantly analysed on the example of aphid subfamily Lachninae. Individuals of this group were used in experiments, during which a thanatotic response was induced with various results. The response differed from prolonged thanatosis, lasting for several minutes (Eulachnus rileyi), through shrinking behaviour (e. g. in Stomaphis graffii) to non-responsive species such as Cinara (Schizolachnus) pineti. The large interspecies variation of observed responses can be linked to other defensive mechanisms existing in the studied species, as well as to their mutualistic relationship with ants. The behaviour of shrinking is hypothesized to be the mutualistic response, developed from thanatosis, and being adapted to transportation by ant workers. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1007/s10905-018-9662-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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