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Experience of plant infestation by the omnivorous arthropod Nesidiocoris tenuis affects its subsequent responses to prey-infested plant volatiles

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Nesidiocoris tenuis, an omnivorous arthropod, infests plants in either the absence or presence of prey arthropods. We studied whether plant-infestation experience of N. tenuis affected its subsequent prey-finding behavior. We used sesame plants and eggplants as food plants for N. tenuis, and common cutworm (CCW) (Spodoptera litura larvae) as prey. We focused on their olfactory response to CCW-infested sesame plants versus CCW-infested eggplants in a Y-tube olfactometer. When N. tenuis adults experienced the infestation of sesame plants for one day, they preferred volatiles from CCW-infested sesame plants to those from CCW-infested eggplants. By contrast, when N. tenuis experienced the infestation of eggplants for one day, they showed no difference in their preference between the two odor sources. When the duration of the infestation of plants was increased to four days, N. tenuis that had experienced sesame plants showed a reversed response: they preferred CCW-infested eggplant volatiles, while those that had infested eggplants again showed no difference in their preference. Next, we studied the olfactory preference of N. tenuis that had previously infested plants with moth (Ephestia kuehniella) eggs. We found that irrespective of plant species and of duration of experience (either one or four days), N. tenuis adults that had previously experienced one plant species showed a significant preference for volatiles from CCW-infested plants of the same species. The blends of the volatiles emitted from CCW-infested sesame plants and those from CCW-infested eggplants were qualitatively different. Possibility to control the olfactory response of N. tenuis to certain prey-infested plant volatiles by adjusting their feeding history is discussed.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Indranil B. Mukherjee for his comments on a previous version of the manuscript. This study was supported in part by Grants for Scientific Research (B) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan and by a Japanese Government (MEXT) scholarship for Research Students.

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HR, MU, JT conceived and designed the experiments. HR, RO performed the experiments. HR, MU, KY analyzed the data. HR, JT wrote the manuscript.

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  1. Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Otsu, Shiga, 520-2113, Japan

    Hojun Rim, Rika Ozawa & Junji Takabayashi

  2. Department of Agrobiological Resources, Faculty of AgricultureMeijo University, Nagoya, Aichi, 468-8502, Japan

    Masayoshi Uefune

  3. Department of Agriculture, Ryukoku University, 1-5 Ooe, Otsu, Shiga, 520-2194, Japan

    Kinuyo Yoneya

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Rim, H., Uefune, M., Ozawa, R. et al. Experience of plant infestation by the omnivorous arthropod Nesidiocoris tenuis affects its subsequent responses to prey-infested plant volatiles. BioControl 62, 233–242 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10526-017-9791-2

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