Mechanisms of dispersal and colonisation in a wind-borne cereal pest, the haplodiploid wheat curl mite
Abstract Dispersal and colonisation determine the survival and success of organisms, and influence the structure and dynamics of communities and ecosystems in space and time. Both affect the gene flow between populations, ensuring sufficient level of genetic variation and improving adaptation abilit...
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| author | Alicja Laska Anna Przychodzka Ewa Puchalska Mariusz Lewandowski Kamila Karpicka-Ignatowska Anna Skoracka |
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| description | Abstract Dispersal and colonisation determine the survival and success of organisms, and influence the structure and dynamics of communities and ecosystems in space and time. Both affect the gene flow between populations, ensuring sufficient level of genetic variation and improving adaptation abilities. In haplodiploids, such as Aceria tosichella (wheat curl mite, WCM), a population may be founded even by a single unfertilised female, so there is a risk of heterozygosity loss (i.e. founder effect). It may lead to adverse outcomes, such as inbreeding depression. Yet, the strength of the founder effect partly depends on the genetic variation of the parental population. WCM is an economically important pest with a great invasive potential, but its dispersal and colonisation mechanisms were poorly studied before. Therefore, here we assessed WCM dispersal and colonisation potential in relation to the genetic variation of the parental population. We checked whether this potential may be linked to specific pre-dispersal actions (e.g. mating before dispersal and collective behaviour). Our study confirms that dispersal strategies of WCM are not dependent on heterozygosity in the parental population, and the efficient dispersal of this species depends on collective movement of fertilised females. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d8ca2a3c01234f83963aa7d27669f33a2022-12-21T19:22:15ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222022-01-0112111210.1038/s41598-021-04525-9Mechanisms of dispersal and colonisation in a wind-borne cereal pest, the haplodiploid wheat curl miteAlicja Laska0Anna Przychodzka1Ewa Puchalska2Mariusz Lewandowski3Kamila Karpicka-Ignatowska4Anna Skoracka5Population Ecology Lab, Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz UniversityPopulation Ecology Lab, Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz UniversitySection of Applied Entomology, Department of Plant Protection, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGWSection of Applied Entomology, Department of Plant Protection, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGWPopulation Ecology Lab, Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz UniversityPopulation Ecology Lab, Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz UniversityAbstract Dispersal and colonisation determine the survival and success of organisms, and influence the structure and dynamics of communities and ecosystems in space and time. Both affect the gene flow between populations, ensuring sufficient level of genetic variation and improving adaptation abilities. In haplodiploids, such as Aceria tosichella (wheat curl mite, WCM), a population may be founded even by a single unfertilised female, so there is a risk of heterozygosity loss (i.e. founder effect). It may lead to adverse outcomes, such as inbreeding depression. Yet, the strength of the founder effect partly depends on the genetic variation of the parental population. WCM is an economically important pest with a great invasive potential, but its dispersal and colonisation mechanisms were poorly studied before. Therefore, here we assessed WCM dispersal and colonisation potential in relation to the genetic variation of the parental population. We checked whether this potential may be linked to specific pre-dispersal actions (e.g. mating before dispersal and collective behaviour). Our study confirms that dispersal strategies of WCM are not dependent on heterozygosity in the parental population, and the efficient dispersal of this species depends on collective movement of fertilised females.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04525-9 |
| spellingShingle | Alicja Laska Anna Przychodzka Ewa Puchalska Mariusz Lewandowski Kamila Karpicka-Ignatowska Anna Skoracka Mechanisms of dispersal and colonisation in a wind-borne cereal pest, the haplodiploid wheat curl mite Scientific Reports |
| title | Mechanisms of dispersal and colonisation in a wind-borne cereal pest, the haplodiploid wheat curl mite |
| title_full | Mechanisms of dispersal and colonisation in a wind-borne cereal pest, the haplodiploid wheat curl mite |
| title_fullStr | Mechanisms of dispersal and colonisation in a wind-borne cereal pest, the haplodiploid wheat curl mite |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mechanisms of dispersal and colonisation in a wind-borne cereal pest, the haplodiploid wheat curl mite |
| title_short | Mechanisms of dispersal and colonisation in a wind-borne cereal pest, the haplodiploid wheat curl mite |
| title_sort | mechanisms of dispersal and colonisation in a wind borne cereal pest the haplodiploid wheat curl mite |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04525-9 |
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