蚜虫
生物
兼性
类胡萝卜素
桃红蓟马
捕食者
植物
捕食
颜料
寄主(生物学)
生态学
动物
蚜虫科
同翅目
有害生物分析
化学
有机化学
作者
Tsutomu Tsuchida,Ryuichi Koga,Mitsuyo Horikawa,Tetsuto Tsunoda,Takashi Maoka,Shogo Matsumoto,Jean Simon,Takema Fukatsu
出处
期刊:Science
[American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)]
日期:2010-11-19
卷期号:330 (6007): 1102-1104
被引量:384
标识
DOI:10.1126/science.1195463
摘要
Color variation within populations of the pea aphid influences relative susceptibility to predators and parasites. We have discovered that infection with a facultative endosymbiont of the genus Rickettsiella changes the insects' body color from red to green in natural populations. Approximately 8% of pea aphids collected in Western Europe carried the Rickettsiella infection. The infection increased amounts of blue-green polycyclic quinones, whereas it had less of an effect on yellow-red carotenoid pigments. The effect of the endosymbiont on body color is expected to influence prey-predator interactions, as well as interactions with other endosymbionts.
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