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Life history traits in a capital breeding pine caterpillar: effect of host species and needle age

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, August 2018
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Title
Life history traits in a capital breeding pine caterpillar: effect of host species and needle age
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BMC Ecology and Evolution, August 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12898-018-0181-0
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Dan Luo, Meng Lai, Chuanfeng Xu, Haoni Shi, Xingping Liu

Abstract

For capital breeding Lepidoptera, larval food quality is a key determinant of their fitness. A series of studies have suggested that the larval host species or varieties dramatically impact their development and reproductive output. However, few studies have reported the role of foliar age and adult mating success has often been ignored in these studies. In this paper, the influence of host species and needle age on larval performances, adult mating behavior and fitness consequences has been studied using a capital breeding caterpillar, Dendrolimus punctatus Walker (Lepidoptera:Lasiocampidae). In larval performance trial, a strong effect of larval host species and needle age was found on survivorship, developmental duration, body weight, percentage of adult emergence, and growth index, but not on percentage of female progeny. In adult mating trial, larval host species and needle age also significantly affected mating latency and mating duration, but not mating success. In adult fitness trial, female fecundity, longevity and fitness index, but not oviposition duration and fertility, influenced by larval host species and needle age. These results reveal the importance of larval host species and needle age on larval performance and adult reproductive fitness in this capital breeding insect and provide strong evidence that old needles of masson pine P. massoniana is the best host for D. punctatus.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 30%
Student > Master 3 15%
Student > Bachelor 2 10%
Professor 1 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 6 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 45%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 5%
Environmental Science 1 5%
Sports and Recreations 1 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 5%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 7 35%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 September 2018.
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#4,621,122
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#1,172
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