ArticleEvolution; international journal of organic evolution2017
Adaptation to divergent larval diets in the medfly, Ceratitis capitata.
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- Meta-analysis reveals that phenotypic plasticity and divergent selection promote reproductive isolation during incipient speciation.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Pooled it
- Latitudinal variation in survival and immature development of Ceratitis capitata populations reared in two key overwintering hosts.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Characterisation of the symbionts in the Mediterranean fruit fly gut.Microbial genomics · 2022Article
- Differential response to larval crowding of a long- and a short-lived medfly biotype.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2020Article
- Effect of host fruit, temperature and Wolbachia infection on survival and development of Ceratitis capitata immature stages.PloS one · 2020Article
- Enterobacter sp. AA26 gut symbiont as a protein source for Mediterranean fruit fly mass-rearing and sterile insect technique applications.BMC microbiology · 2019Article
- Age, sex, adult and larval diet shape starvation resistance in the Mediterranean fruit fly: an ecological and gerontological perspective.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Adaptation to developmental diet influences the response to selection on age at reproduction in the fruit fly.Journal of evolutionary biology · 2019Article
- Mate choice and gene expression signatures associated with nutritional adaptation in the medfly (Ceratitis capitata).Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Contribution of maternal effects to dietary selection in Mediterranean fruit flies.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2019Article
- Larval Diet Affects Male Pheromone Blend in a Laboratory Strain of the Medfly, Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae).Journal of chemical ecology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Variation in diet can influence the timing of major life-history events and can drive population diversification and ultimately speciation. Proximate responses of life histories to diet have been well studied. However, there are scant experimental data on how organisms adapt to divergent diets over the longer term. We focused on this omission by testing the responses of a global pest, the Mediterranean fruitfly, to divergent selection on larval diets of different nutritional profiles. Tests conducted before and after 30 generations of nutritional selection revealed a complex interplay between the effects of novel larval dietary conditions on both plastic and evolved responses. There were proximate-only responses to the larval diet in adult male courtship and the frequency of copulation. Males on higher calorie larval diets consistently engaged in more bouts of energetic courtship. In contrast, following selection, larval development time, and egg to adult survival showed evidence of evolved divergence between diet regimes. Adult body size showed evidence for adaptation, with flies being significantly heavier when reared on their "own" diet. The results show the multifaceted responses of individuals to dietary selection and are important in understanding the extreme generalism exhibited by the medfly.
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