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Conserved oviposition preferences in alpine leaf beetle populations despite host shifts and isolation

Anthony Christopher Davison
2007
Journal Articles

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Choosing the plant on which to lay their eggs is the last act of care that most female herbivorous insects bestow upon their offspring. These decisions play a pivotal role in insect–plant interactions, placing host preference under strong selection and contributing to the diversity of phytophagous insects as one of the first traits to adapt to new hosts. 2. This study presents a test of whether extreme isolation and exposure to different host plants can produce intra-specific divergence in oviposition preference in alpine insects. Geographic variation should impose selection to fine-tune host plant ranking and specificity to the plants normally encountered, to avoid wasting time during the very limited reproductive season experienced at high altitudes. 3. Beetles from five populations of Oreina elongata differing in host availability were offered three natural hosts: Cirsium spinosissimum, Adenostyles alliariae, and Adenostyles glabra. A novel application of a continuation ratio model (logistic regression) was made to sequential no-choice experiments, combined with quasilikelihood analysis of multiple-choice experiments. 4. The results show little geographic variation in host plant choice: all populations strongly preferred Cirsium in multiple-choice trials, and in no-choice experiments laid around 47% of their remaining eggs during each stage, almost regardless of the host present. 5. Enemy-free space seems to explain the preference for Cirsium, but isolation and exposure to different plants has clearly not caused local adaptation in host plant ranking or specificity. Reasons for this conservatism despite divergence in other characteristics are discussed.

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Anthony Christopher Davison
2007
Journal Articles

Résumé

Choosing the plant on which to lay their eggs is the last act of care that most female herbivorous insects bestow upon their offspring. These decisions play a pivotal role in insect–plant interactions, placing host preference under strong selection and contributing to the diversity of phytophagous insects as one of the first traits to adapt to new hosts. 2. This study presents a test of whether extreme isolation and exposure to different host plants can produce intra-specific divergence in oviposition preference in alpine insects. Geographic variation should impose selection to fine-tune host plant ranking and specificity to the plants normally encountered, to avoid wasting time during the very limited reproductive season experienced at high altitudes. 3. Beetles from five populations of Oreina elongata differing in host availability were offered three natural hosts: Cirsium spinosissimum, Adenostyles alliariae, and Adenostyles glabra. A novel application of a continuation ratio model (logistic regression) was made to sequential no-choice experiments, combined with quasilikelihood analysis of multiple-choice experiments. 4. The results show little geographic variation in host plant choice: all populations strongly preferred Cirsium in multiple-choice trials, and in no-choice experiments laid around 47% of their remaining eggs during each stage, almost regardless of the host present. 5. Enemy-free space seems to explain the preference for Cirsium, but isolation and exposure to different plants has clearly not caused local adaptation in host plant ranking or specificity. Reasons for this conservatism despite divergence in other characteristics are discussed.

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/369b7bdd-967e-4694-b249-69721244bc7a

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Hôte (biologie)

vignette|Un Piéride de la rave hôte d'un Taraxacum sect. Ruderalia dans un jardin à Kiev. Juillet 2016. En biologie, et notamment en parasitologie, un hôte est un organisme qui héberge un parasite, un partenaire mutuel ou un partenaire commensal, nécessaire à son cycle de vie. Dans le cas du parasitisme, l'organisme hébergé peut provoquer des effets néfastes pour l'hôte. L'hôte doit s'adapter pour ne pas rencontrer le parasite (par exemple en modifiant son comportement).

Plante

Les plantes (Plantae) sont des organismes photosynthétiques et autotrophes, caractérisés par des cellules végétales. Elles forment l'un des règnes des Eukaryota. Ce règne est un groupe monophylétique comprenant les plantes terrestres. La science des plantes est la botanique, qui dans son acception classique étudie aussi les algues et les cyanobactéries (qui n'appartiennent pas au règne des Plantae). L'ancien « règne végétal » n'existe plus dans les classifications modernes (cladistes ou évolutionnistes).

Sélection naturelle

vignette|Selon les principes de la sélection naturelle de Darwin, les pinsons des Galápagos sont issus d'une espèce souche venue du continent. La sélection s'est traduite par une spécialisation de la taille de leur bec en liaison avec leur régime alimentaire (seconde édition de son la publiée en 1845). En biologie, la est l'un des mécanismes moteurs de l'évolution des espèces qui explique le succès reproductif différentiel entre des individus d'une même espèce et le succès différentiel des gènes présents dans une population.

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