PMID: 12770099May 29, 2003Paper

Maintenance of soldier-producing aphids on an artificial diet

Journal of Insect Physiology
Harunobu ShibaoTakema Fukatsu

Abstract

In our efforts to understand the biology of soldier-producing aphids, we attempted to maintain them in the laboratory using a chemically defined artificial diet. The ability of 16 species from the subfamilies Eriosomatinae and Hormaphidinae, most of which are soldier-producing species, to survive on the artificial diet was examined. Some species neither fed nor grew on the diet, whereas other species accepted the diet, grew to some extent, and managed to produce a small number of short-lived offspring. Although they performed poorly on the diet in general, aphid performance was correlated with the stage in the life cycle and the developmental stadium in that aphids of the gall generation tended to accept the diet and survive on it, whereas aphids of the non-gall generation did not. Also, old insects tended to perform better on the diet than young nymphs. Notably, only one species, Tuberaphis styraci, a gall-forming aphid that produces 2nd instar sterile soldier, showed good performance on the diet. Insects collected from galls (generation G0) survived on the diet, grew well, and produced many progeny. Three successive generations (G1, G2 and G3) were produced on the diet. Developmental period, adult body size, and age of first ...Continue Reading

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Mar 17, 2004·Journal of Insect Physiology·Harunobu ShibaoTakema Fukatsu
Sep 30, 2008·Molecular Biology and Evolution·Mayako KutsukakeTakema Fukatsu
Jul 28, 2004·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·Mayako KutsukakeTakema Fukatsu
Jun 12, 2010·Communicative & Integrative Biology·Harunobu ShibaoMasakazu Shimada
Nov 15, 2012·Nature Communications·Mayako KutsukakeTakema Fukatsu
Aug 10, 2019·Frontiers in Plant Science·Mayako KutsukakeTakema Fukatsu
Apr 11, 2018·Journal of Chemical Ecology·Patrick AbbotSarah P Lawson
Jan 15, 2021·Scientific Reports·Harunobu ShibaoTakema Fukatsu

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