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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY
Volume 99, Issue 2, Pages 175-179Publisher
CZECH ACAD SCI, INST ENTOMOLOGY
DOI: 10.14411/eje.2002.025
Keywords
parasitoids; Hymenoptera; Trichogramma; physiology; ecology; diapause; photoperiod; maternal age; variation
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A laboratory study was carried out on photoperiodic control of prepupal diapause in the egg parasitoid Trichogramma embryophagum (Hartig). All experiments were conducted with an isofemale parthenogenetic strain. The maternal generation was reared at 20degreesC and photoperiods of L:D = 3:21, 6:18, 9:15, 12:12, 15:9, 18:6, 21:3 or 24:0. The tendency to diapause in the progeny was estimated by rearing the daughter generation at 15degreesC in the dark. Experiments revealed a long-day type response based on maternal influence on the progeny prepupal diapause. However, significant endogenous fluctuations in the pattern of the photoperiodic curve were revealed in successive laboratory generations reared under constant conditions. The left threshold day-length was very variable, while the right threshold kept relative constancy. Experiments with individual females sequentially offered new host eggs demonstrated that the probability of the progeny entering diapause depends significantly on maternal age. At 20degreesC and 18L:6D, the percentage of diapause was maximal (ca 15%) in the progeny eclosed from the eggs laid during 1(st) - 2(nd) days of maternal life. Then the proportion of diapausing progeny decreased to 0-5% at days 9-11 of female life and later slightly increased in 15-17 days old females. Thus, endogenous factors play an important role in maternal influence on progeny diapause, particularly in environments close to threshold temperature and photoperiod.
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