A learning-related variation in electroantennogram responses of a parasitic wasp

TY - JOUR

T1 - A learning-related variation in electroantennogram responses of a parasitic wasp

AU - Vet, L.E.M.

AU - de Jong, R.

AU - van Giessen, W.A.

AU - Visser, J.

N1 - Reporting year: 1990 Metis note: 13565;article; knaw:38

PY - 1990

Y1 - 1990

N2 - Odour responses of parasitic insects, in search of their hosts, can change due to experience. Leptopilina heterotoma (Thomson) (Hymenoptera; Eucoilidae), a parasitic wasp of drosophilid larvae, is known to alter its preference for odours emanating from host food substrates through learning. These kinds of behavioural modifications in insects are assumed to be the result of complex processes in the brain. The results presented in this report, however, suggest that this learning-related behavioural variation is not restricted to brain processes but that it involves changes in sensitivity of olfactory receptor neurones.

AB - Odour responses of parasitic insects, in search of their hosts, can change due to experience. Leptopilina heterotoma (Thomson) (Hymenoptera; Eucoilidae), a parasitic wasp of drosophilid larvae, is known to alter its preference for odours emanating from host food substrates through learning. These kinds of behavioural modifications in insects are assumed to be the result of complex processes in the brain. The results presented in this report, however, suggest that this learning-related behavioural variation is not restricted to brain processes but that it involves changes in sensitivity of olfactory receptor neurones.

U2 - 10.1111/j.1365-3032.1990.tb00512.x

DO - 10.1111/j.1365-3032.1990.tb00512.x

M3 - Article

SN - 0307-6962

VL - 15

SP - 243

EP - 247

JO - Physiological Entomology

JF - Physiological Entomology

IS - 2

ER -