Effect of associated fungi on the immunocompetence of red turpentine beetle larvae, Dendroctonus valens （Coleoptera： Curculionidae： Scolytinae）

作     者：Zhang-Hong Shi Bo Wang Stephen R. Clarke Jiang-Hua Sun 

作者机构：State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents Institute of Zoology Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China USDA Forest Service FHP Lufkin Texas USA 

出 版 物：《Insect Science》 (昆虫科学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2012年第19卷第5期

页      面：579-584页

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学科分类：090706[农学-园林植物与观赏园艺] 0907[农学-林学] 09[农学] 0904[农学-植物保护] 090402[农学-农业昆虫与害虫防治] 

基　　金：国家自然科学基金 

主　　题：bark beetle ecological immunology fungi phenoloxidase symbiosis 

摘      要：Abstract Dendroctonus-fungus symbioses are often considered as the ideal model sys- tems to study the development and maintenance ofectosymbioses, and diverse interactions, including antagonism, commensalism and mutualism, have been documented between these organisms. The red turpentine beetle, Dendroctonus valens LeConte （Coleoptera： Curculionidae： Scolytinae） is a pine-killing invasive beetle in northern China. Fungi species Ophiostoma minus, Leptographium sinoprocerum, L. terebrantis and L. procerum were associated with this bark beetle. Antagonistic interactions between D. valens and its as- sociated fungi, such as O. minus and L. sinoprocerum, have been demonstrated, but the underlying causes of this phenomenon are unknown. Here, we first found the two tested fungi species retarded the net weight gain of D. valens larvae after completing 3-day feeding on their media. Furthermore, we provide direct evidence indicating the effect of associated fungi on the immunocompetence olD. valens larvae to explain the documented antagonism. Our results showed that the activity of phenoloxidase and total phenoloxi- dase in D. valens larvae were significantly upregulated by two strains of associated fungi, O. minus and L. sinoprocerum as compared with the controls. The phenoloxidase ratio increased significantly in the larvae which had fed for 3 days on media inoculated with O. minus. Because insect immtme defenses are costly to be deployed, these results could be explored as one of the underlying mechanisms of the documented antagonism.