Effect of the nutritional quality of primary food on the
development, sex ratio, and size of a parasitoid in a
quadri-trophic food web

J 2023

Effect of the nutritional quality of primary food on the development, sex ratio, and size of a parasitoid in a quadri-trophic food web

ČERNECKÁ, Ľudmila and Stanislav PEKÁR

Basic information

Original name

Effect of the nutritional quality of primary food on the development, sex ratio, and size of a parasitoid in a quadri-trophic food web

Authors

ČERNECKÁ, Ľudmila and Stanislav PEKÁR (703 Slovakia, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

European Journal of Entomology, Institute of Entomology CAS, 2023, 1210-5759

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10616 Entomology

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

Impact factor

Impact factor: 0.975 in 2014

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/23:00132502

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.14411/eje.2023.031

UT WoS

001085979700001

Keywords in English

Araneae; Phylloneta impressa; Diptera; Drosophila melanogaster; Hymenoptera; Zatypota percontatoria; Darwin wasps; ectoparasitoids; fitness; host; nutrients

Abstract

V originále

This study explores the eff ect of nutritional composition on the fi tness of consumers in a quadri-trophic food web. Specifically, we studied how enrichment of the food of fruit flies Drosophila melanogaster (Meigen, 1830) transfers to the spider Phylloneta impressa (L. Koch) (Theridiidae) and its parasitoid wasp, Zatypota percontatoria Mueller (Ichneumonidae). We reared fruit flies on balanced, protein-enriched, and lipid-enriched diets, and observed several fitness-related traits in both the predator and the parasitoid. In spiders, we did not fi nd signifi cant diff erences among treatments in their body size and the probability of building a cocoon web. In parasitoids, we failed to find significant differences among treatments in the time to wasp pupation, the duration of pupation, the length of the wasp tibia and pronotum, and the body mass. However, the sex ratio of hatched wasps diff ered significantly among treatments from the expected 1 : 1. In the balanced diet group, the majority of wasps were males. There was a signifi cant positive relationship between the spider prosoma size and the length of the wasp fore wing. Our results suggest that the quality of the food of the primary consumer had little effect on the fitness of the organism at the fourth trophic level.

Citovat

ČERNECKÁ, Ľudmila and Stanislav PEKÁR. Effect of the nutritional quality of primary food on the development, sex ratio, and size of a parasitoid in a quadri-trophic food web. European Journal of Entomology. Institute of Entomology CAS, 2023, vol. 120, August, p. 304-309. ISSN 1210-5759. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.14411/eje.2023.031.

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ČERNECKÁ, Ľudmila and Stanislav PEKÁR. Effect of the nutritional quality of primary food on the development, sex ratio, and size of a parasitoid in a quadri-trophic food web. \textit{European Journal of Entomology}. Institute of Entomology CAS, 2023, vol.~120, August, p.~304-309. ISSN~1210-5759. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.14411/eje.2023.031.

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