Species-specific levels of ant attendance mediate performance costs in a facultative myrmecophilous butterfly

dc.creatorKaminski, LA
dc.creatorRodrigues, D
dc.date2011
dc.dateSEP
dc.date2014-07-30T18:43:38Z
dc.date2015-11-26T16:54:20Z
dc.date2014-07-30T18:43:38Z
dc.date2015-11-26T16:54:20Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-28T23:41:36Z
dc.date.available2018-03-28T23:41:36Z
dc.identifierPhysiological Entomology. Wiley-blackwell, v. 36, n. 3, n. 208, n. 214, 2011.
dc.identifier0307-6962
dc.identifierWOS:000293982800002
dc.identifier10.1111/j.1365-3032.2011.00785.x
dc.identifierhttp://www.repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/72061
dc.identifierhttp://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/72061
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/1276827
dc.descriptionConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
dc.descriptionFundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
dc.descriptionTrophobiont butterfly larvae offer caloric rewards to ants through specialised glands and, in return, gain ant-derived protection from natural enemies. Thus, from the larva's perspective, the major cost of myrmecophily comprises the reward production. Larvae of the butterfly Parrhasius polibetes (Stoll) (Lycaenidae) are facultatively tended by several ant species, which might differ in the intensity of tending behaviour. The performance costs (development time, survival, pupal mass and adult dry mass) of P. polibetes are examined when tended by two ant species differing in size and foraging strategies (Camponotus melanoticus Emery and Camponotus crassus Mayr), along with the corresponding intensity of tending behaviour towards late instars. Untended larvae serve as controls. Larvae tended by C. melanoticus take longer to pupate compared with both C. crassus and control larvae. By contrast, pupae whose larvae are tended by C. crassus are lighter than control larvae but do not differ from those tended by C. melanoticus. No differences are found in the adult stage, indicating compensation in all cases. Both at short-and long-term scales, C. melanoticus tends larvae of P. polibetes more intensely than C. crassus. The increase in tending activity of C. melanoticus presumably delays the development time of larvae tended by this ant species. The results of the present study show that tending intensity varies depending on the ant species, and that P. polibetes has compensatory mechanisms to minimise myrmecophily costs, regardless of tending intensity. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first experimental evidence that intensity of ant-tending behaviour is species-specific and affects performance in a trophobiont insect.
dc.description36
dc.description3
dc.description208
dc.description214
dc.descriptionConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
dc.descriptionFundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
dc.descriptionConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
dc.descriptionFundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
dc.descriptionCNPq [140183/2006-0]
dc.descriptionFAPESP [08/54058-1, 10/51340-8, 07/07802-4]
dc.languageen
dc.publisherWiley-blackwell
dc.publisherMalden
dc.publisherEUA
dc.relationPhysiological Entomology
dc.relationPhysiol. Entomol.
dc.rightsfechado
dc.rightshttp://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-406071.html
dc.sourceWeb of Science
dc.subjectCamponotus
dc.subjectconditional mutualism
dc.subjectlarval reward secretions
dc.subjectperformance traits
dc.subjecttending behaviour
dc.subjecttrade-offs
dc.subjectLycaenid Larvae
dc.subjectJalmenus-evagoras
dc.subjectTending Ants
dc.subjectMutualism
dc.subjectLepidoptera
dc.subjectBehavior
dc.subjectAssociation
dc.subjectEvolution
dc.subjectBenefits
dc.subjectTreehopper
dc.titleSpecies-specific levels of ant attendance mediate performance costs in a facultative myrmecophilous butterfly
dc.typeArtículos de revistas


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