Search results for "Enemy release hypothesi"
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Disentangling higher trophic level interactions in the cabbage aphid food web using high-throughput DNA sequencing
2017
International audience; The lack of understanding of complex food-web interactions has been a major gap in the history of biological control. In particular, a better understanding of the functioning of pest food-webs and how they vary between native and invaded geographical ranges is of prime interest for biological control research and associated integrated pest management. Technical limitations associated with the deciphering of complex food-webs can now be largely overcome by the use of high throughput DNA sequencing techniques such as Illumina MiSeq. We tested the efficiency of this next generation sequencing technology in a metabarcoding approach, to study aphid food-webs using the cab…
Synergistic reduction of a native key herbivore performance by two non-indigenous invasive algae
2019
Abstract Native generalist grazers can control the populations of non-indigenous invasive algae (NIIA). Here, it was found that the simultaneous consumption of two co-occurring NIIA, Caulerpa cylindracea and C. taxifolia var. distichophylla, hinders the grazing ability of the main Mediterranean herbivorous, the native sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus. The ingestion of any of the two NIIA alone did not produce any difference in sea urchin righting time with respect to usual algal diet. In contrast, the simultaneous consumption of both NIIA, which grow intermingled in nature and are consumed by P. lividus, retarded its righting behavior. Such result reveals substantial physiological stress in…
Aggregation patterns of helminth populations in the introduced fish, Liza haematocheilus (Teleostei: Mugilidae): disentangling host–parasite relation…
2018
International audience; A number of hypotheses exist to explain aggregated distributions, but they have seldom been used to investigate differences in parasite spatial distribution between native and introduced hosts. We applied two aggregation models, the negative binomial distribution and Taylor's power law, to study the aggregation patterns of helminth populations from Liza haematocheilus across its native (Sea of Japan) and introduced (Sea of Azov) distribution ranges. In accordance with the enemy release hypothesis, we predicted that parasite populations in the introduced host range would be less aggregated than in the native host area, because aggregation is tightly constrained by abu…
Supplementary material 3 from: Lefort M, Wratten S, Cusumano A, Varennes Y, Boyer S (2017) Disentangling higher trophic level interactions in the cab…
2018
Exploratory statistics addressing sequencing depth per country and MOTU rarefaction.
Supplementary material 2 from: Lefort M, Wratten S, Cusumano A, Varennes Y, Boyer S (2017) Disentangling higher trophic level interactions in the cab…
2018
Supporting Information 2
Supplementary material 1 from: Lefort M, Wratten S, Cusumano A, Varennes Y, Boyer S (2017) Disentangling higher trophic level interactions in the cab…
2018
OSR aphid mummy collection. Sampling location and size / Amplification success of mummies' DNA extracts by Illumina sequencing.