Utilization of pre-existing energy stores of female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes during the first gonotrophic cycle

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Guoli ZhouMichael A Wells

Abstract

Pre-existing energy reserves may play an important role in regulating the utilization of blood meal proteins in female anautogenous mosquitoes. Determining the fate of reserves derived from the sugar meal and larval food during the first gonotrophic cycle would help to elucidate the relative contributions of larval and adult nutrition to survival and reproduction. We measured the allocation of pre-blood-meal reserves to egg production or energy production during the first gonotrophic cycle by using [14C]-labeled female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Feeding adults [3,4-14C]-glucose labeled the glycogen and sugar stores (approximately 50%), lipid stores (approximately 25%), and protein and amino acid stores (approximately 25%). During the first gonotrophic cycle, about 60% of the glycogen and sugar stores were metabolized and all were used for energy production. About 33% of the labeled protein and 72% of the labeled amino acid stores were metabolized, with about 9% being transferred to the eggs and the rest oxidized. About 30% of the lipid was metabolized, with about 65% being transferred to the eggs and the rest oxidized. Feeding [1-14C]-oleic acid to larvae effectively labeled adult lipid stores with about 75% of the label in lipi...Continue Reading

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