| Literature DB >> 30464828 |
Thomas A Verschut1, Brian D Inouye2, Peter A Hambäck1.
Abstract
Many insect species have limited sensory abilities and may not be able to perceive the quality of different resource types while approaching patchily distributed resources. These restrictions may lead to differences in selection rates between separate patches and between different resource types within a patch, which may have consequences for associational effects between resources. In this study, we used an oviposition assay containing different frequencies of apple and banana substrates divided over two patches to compare resource selection rates of wild-type Drosophila melanogaster at the between- and within-patch scales. Next, we compared the wild-type behavior with that of the olfactory-deficient strain Orco 2 and the gustatory-deficient strain Poxn ΔM22-B5 and found comparable responses to patch heterogeneity and similarly strong selection rates for apple at both scales for the wild-type and olfactory-deficient flies. Their oviposition behavior translated into associational susceptibility for apple and associational resistance for banana. The gustatory-deficient flies, on the other hand, no longer had a strong selection rate for apple, strongly differed in between- and within-patch selection rates from the wild-type flies, and caused no associational effects between the resources. Our study suggests that differences in sensory capabilities can affect resource selection at different search behavior scales in different ways and in turn underlie associational effects between resources at different spatial scales.Entities:
Keywords: Drosophila melanogaster; associational effects; oviposition; patch selection; resource selection; search behavior
Year: 2018 PMID: 30464828 PMCID: PMC6238129 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4534
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Ecol Evol ISSN: 2045-7758 Impact factor: 2.912
Figure 1A graphic representation of the oviposition assay and the different resource distribution treatments is given in panel (a), followed by the oviposition behavior of wild‐type Drosophila melanogaster (w 1118 ‐ b,c), olfactory‐deficient flies (Orco 2 ‐ d,e), and gustatory‐deficient flies (Poxn ΔM22‐B5 ‐ f,g) in relation to the increasing frequency of banana oviposition substrates in the oviposition assay. Each point in the graph represents the number of eggs laid by an individual fly on either an apple (red) or banana (yellow) oviposition substrate (log scale) in the oviposition assay with an even resource distribution and an uneven resource distribution. Resource frequency is given as apple:banana on the axis. The predicted linear regression lines for eggs on either resource types are illustrated with their 95% confidence interval, and the points representing the number of eggs laid on a substrate are jittered horizontally for visualization purposes
Figure 2Maximum likelihood estimates for the selection coefficients between patches (light blue) and within patches (dark blue) for wild‐type Drosophila melanogaster (w 1118), olfactory‐deficient flies (Orco 2), and gustatory‐deficient flies (Poxn ΔM22‐B5). The dashed line at 0.50 represents random selection among the apple or banana oviposition substrates. Selection coefficients above the dashed line represent a preference for apple, and selection coefficients below the dashed line represent a preference for banana