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Farji-Brener AG, Juncosa-Polzella AS, Madrigal-Tejada D, Centeno-Alvarado D, Hernández-Soto M, Soto-Huaira M, Gutiérrez-Cruz S. Antlion allometry suggests a greater importance of prey capture among first larval instars. ETHOL ECOL EVOL 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/03949370.2021.1893825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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- Alejandro G. Farji-Brener
- LIHO (Laboratorio de Investigaciones en Hormigas), INIBIOMA-CONICET y CRUB, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Pasaje Gutiérrez 1125, Bariloche 8400, Argentina
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- Laboratório de Biologia Floral e Reproductiva, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil
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- Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa, Perú
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Liu JN, Wang TH, Jia QY, Gao XH, Wan H, Sun WY, Yang XL, Bao R, Liu JZ, Yu ZJ. Characterization of the Microbial Communities in the Ant Lion Euroleon coreanus (Okamoto) (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae). NEOTROPICAL ENTOMOLOGY 2016; 45:397-403. [PMID: 27021349 DOI: 10.1007/s13744-016-0388-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2015] [Accepted: 02/24/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
Abstract
Euroleon coreanus (Okamoto) is widely distributed in China, and the larval stage can be treated as traditional Chinese medicine. However, the host-bacterium relationship remains unexplored, as there is a lack of knowledge on the microbial community of ant lions. Hence, in the current study, we explored the microbial community of the larval ant lion E. coreanus using Illumina MiSeq sequencing. Results indicated that a total of 10 phyla, 126 genera, and 145 species were characterized from the second instars of E. coreanus, and most of the microbes were classified in the phylum Proteobacteria. Cronobacter muytjensii was the most abundant species characterized in the whole body and gut of E. coreanus, and the unclassified species in the genera Brevundimonas and Lactobacillus were relatively more abundant in the head and carcass. In addition, no Wolbachia-like bacteria were detected, whereas bacteria like Francisella tularensis subsp. Holarctica OSU18 and unclassified Rickettsiella were first identified in ant lion E. coreanus.
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- J N Liu
- Key Lab of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Hebei Province, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal Univ, Shijiazhuang,, 050024, People's Republic of China
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- Key Lab of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Hebei Province, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal Univ, Shijiazhuang,, 050024, People's Republic of China
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- Key Lab of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Hebei Province, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal Univ, Shijiazhuang,, 050024, People's Republic of China
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- Key Lab of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Hebei Province, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal Univ, Shijiazhuang,, 050024, People's Republic of China
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- Key Lab of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Hebei Province, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal Univ, Shijiazhuang,, 050024, People's Republic of China
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- Key Lab of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Hebei Province, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal Univ, Shijiazhuang,, 050024, People's Republic of China
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- Key Lab of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Hebei Province, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal Univ, Shijiazhuang,, 050024, People's Republic of China
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- Key Lab of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Hebei Province, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal Univ, Shijiazhuang,, 050024, People's Republic of China
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- Key Lab of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Hebei Province, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal Univ, Shijiazhuang,, 050024, People's Republic of China.
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- Key Lab of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Hebei Province, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal Univ, Shijiazhuang,, 050024, People's Republic of China.
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When an antlion captures a foraging ant, the victim's nestmates may display rescue behaviour. This study tested the hypothesis that the expression of rescue behaviour depends on the life expectancy of the captured ant. This hypothesis predicts that the expression of rescue behaviour will be less frequent when the captured ant has a lower life expectancy than when it has a higher life expectancy because such a response would be adaptive at the colony level. Indeed, significant differences were found in the frequency of rescue behaviours in response to antlion victims with differing life expectancies. In agreement with prediction, victims with lower life expectancies were rescued less frequently, and those rescues had a longer latency and shorter duration. There was also a qualitative difference in the behaviour of rescuers to victims from the low and high life expectancy groups. Several explanations for these findings are proposed.
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- Krzysztof Miler
- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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