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| 1 | Comparative efficacy of gypsy moth(Lepidoptera:Erebidae)entomopathogens on transgenic blight-tolerant and wild-type American,Chinese,and hybrid chestnuts(Fagales:Fagaceae)显示文摘American chestnut(Castanea dentata[Marsh.]Borkh.)was once the dominant hardwood species in Eastern North America before an exotic fungal pathogen,Cryphonec-tria parasitica(Murrill)Barr,functionally eliminated it across its range.One promising approach toward restoring American chestnut to natural forests is development of blight-tolerant trees using genetic transformation.However,transformation and related processes can result in unexpected and unintended phenotypic changes,potentially altering ecologi-cal interactions.To assess unintended tritrophic impacts of transgenic American chestnut on plant herbivore interactions,gypsy moth(Lymantria dispar L.)caterpillars were fed leaf disks excised from two transgenic events,Darling 54 and Darling 58,and four control American chestnut lines.Leaf disks were previously treated with an LDso dose of either the speces-specific Lymantria dispar multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus(LdMNPV)or the generalist pathogen Bacillus thuringiensis subsp.kurstaki(Btk).Mortality was quantified and compared to water blank controls.Tree genotype had a strong efect on the efficacies of both pathogens.Larval mortality from Btk-treated foliage from only one transgenic event,Darling 54,differed from its isogenic progenitor,Ellis l,but was similar to an unre-lated wild-type American chestnut control.LdMNPV efficacy was unaffected by genetic transformation.Results suggest that although genetic modification of trees may affect interactions with other nontarget organisms,this may be due to insertion effects,and varia-tion amnon diMterent genvtypes(wlether uasgeic ul wild-typc)iupaults a giealci change in response than transgene presence. | Aaron J.Brown Andrew E.Newhouse William A.Powell Dylan Parry | 2020 | Insect Science2020,27,5: | 0 |
| 2 | Size-dependent flight capacity and propensity in a range-expanding invasive insect显示文摘For capital-breeding insects,all resources available for adult metabolic needs are accumulated during larval feeding.Therefore,body size at adult eclosion represents the total energetic capacity of the individual.For female capital breeders,body size is strongly correlated with lifetime fecundity,while in males,body size,which correlates with fitness,is less understood.In capital-breeding species with wingless,flightless,or dispersal-limited females,flight potential for male Lepidoptera has important implications for mate-finding and may be correlated with body size.At low population densities,failure to mate has been identified as an important Allee effect and can drive the success or failure of invasive species at range edges and in species of conservation concern.Th capital-breeding European subspecies of Lymantria dispar(L.),was introduced to North America in 1869 and now ranges across much of eastern North America.In L.dispar,females are flightless and mate-finding is entirely performed by males.We quantified male L.dispar flight capacity and propensity relative to morphological and physiological characteristics using fixed-arm flight mills.A range of male body sizes was produced by varying the protein content of standard artificial diets while holding other dietary components constant.Wing length,a proxy for body size,relative thorax mass,and forewing aspect were all important predictors of total flight distance and maximum speed.These results have important implications for mate-finding and invasion dynamics in L.dispar and may apply broadly to other capital-breeding insects. | Chelsea Jahant-Miller Russell Miller Dylan Parry | 2022 | Insect Science2022,29,3: | 0 |
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