Gold: A Unique Pigmentation Defective Laboratory Strain of the Lady Beetle

作     者：Margaret Louise Allen Margaret Louise Allen

作者机构：Biological Control of Pests Research Unit National Biological Control Laboratory US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Stoneville USA 

出 版 物：《Advances in Entomology》 (昆虫学（英文）)

年 卷 期：2016年第4卷第1期

页      面：11-18页

学科分类：02[经济学] 0202[经济学-应用经济学] 

主　　题：Lady Beetle Recessive Phenotype Reciprocal Cross Inbreeding Depression Aposematism 

摘      要：A laboratory colony of Coleomegilla maculata (De Geer) was selected for a novel phenotypic color trait. The phenotype was paler in color than the wild type, although not as pale as a previously described mutant strain, yellow (ye), and retained dark pigmentation in the eyes. This selected strain was named gold. Mendelian breeding experiments indicate a recessive biallelic inheritance. The strain has decreased fitness characteristics based on measurements of egg production and pupa size.