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11410148

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1473
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-6-18
pubmed:abstractText
In holometabolous insects reproductive success is strongly determined by the nutritional resources available to the females. In addition to nutrients derived from adult feeding, resources for egg production may come from the limited reserves accumulated during the larval stages. The pattern of allocation of these larval reserves to egg production is expected to be strongly linked to the nutritional ecology of the adult. We investigate the temporal pattern of allocation of larval reserves to reproduction in a host-feeding parasitoid wasp. As predicted by the dynamics of allocation of an adult meal, larval reserves are the main source of nutrients for four or five days after emergence. However, despite the high frequency of host feeding and the high nutrient content of a haemolymph meal, which we predicted would lead to larval reserves being conserved in the event of host deprivation, larval reserves contribute to egg production throughout the lifetime of the female. We propose several mechanistic and adaptive explanations for our results, including the possible existence of a limiting or key nutrient for egg production of exclusively larval origin. We make further predictions concerning the pattern of allocation of larval resources in parasitoids with different adult nutritional requirements.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0962-8452
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
22
pubmed:volume
268
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1231-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Lifetime allocation of juvenile and adult nutritional resources to egg production in a holometabolous insect.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte (Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 6035), Faculté des Sciences, Université de Tours, 37200 Tours, France. ana.rivero@ed.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't