Title |
Dietary yeast affects preference and performance in Drosophila suzukii
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Published in |
Journal of Pest Science, November 2017
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DOI | 10.1007/s10340-017-0932-2 |
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Authors |
Nathalie Bellutti, Andreas Gallmetzer, Gerd Innerebner, Silvia Schmidt, Roland Zelger, Elisabeth Helene Koschier |
Abstract |
Yeasts play an important role in nutrition physiology and host attraction of manyDrosophilaspecies, and associations with various yeast species are documented for several drosophilid flies. The pestDrosophila suzukii(Matsumura) has a predominant association with the yeastHanseniaspora uvarum.However, research has not been conducted on the nutritional physiology of the yeasts associated withD. suzukii(spotted wing drosophila). Therefore, in this study, we determined whether dietary yeast was nutritionally relevant and whether yeast species closely associated withD. suzukiipositively affected life-history traits. Our results confirm a crucial role of dietary yeast in the larval development and survival ofD. suzukii.Furthermore, we found specific effects of the closely associated yeast speciesH. uvarumandCandidasp. on larval survival. Observations of the egg-laying behaviour ofD. suzukiion cherry fruits artificially colonised with different yeast species revealed that the number of eggs laid increased on fruits colonised withCandidasp. andSaccharomyces cerevisiae. |
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