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Publication Details
AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Fitness improvement of mass-reared sterile males of ceratitis capitata (Vienna 8 strain) (Diptera: Tephritidae) after gut enrichment with probiotics
Journal of Economic Entomology, Volume 106, No. 2, Year 2013
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Successful mass rearing is crucial for sterile insect technique programs. It has been shown that the sterilizing process using gammaradiation results in damage to midgut tissue, cellular organelles, and gut microbiota of flies. This can be responsible for the inferiority of sterile males compared with wild males. A bacteria-enhanced diet could contribute to the improvement of the fly's fitness. We investigated ways of increasing the competitiveness of mass-reared Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) sterile males. We tested the hypothesis that the addition of beneficial bacteria to the larvae's diet would lead to a significant increase in their levels in the gut of the sterile adults and consequently improve their size and fitness. As expected, enriching the diet of mass-rearing Vienna-8 strain larvae with beneficial bacteria (Klebsiella pneumonia, Enterobacter spp., and Citrobacter freundii) resulted in increase in the number of Enterobacteriacae communities inhabiting the male's gut and a subsequent significant increase in the size of males and other morphometric traits and enhanced sexual performance of males at emergence. © 2013 Entomological Society of America.
Authors & Co-Authors
Hamden, Haytham
Tunisia, Sidi Thabet
Centre National Des Sciences et Technologies Nucleaires
Guerfali, Meriem Msaad
Tunisia, Sidi Thabet
Centre National Des Sciences et Technologies Nucleaires
Fadhl, Salma
Tunisia, Sidi Thabet
Centre National Des Sciences et Technologies Nucleaires
Saidi, Mouldi
Tunisia, Sidi Thabet
Centre National Des Sciences et Technologies Nucleaires
Chevrier, Claude
France, Paris
Cnrs Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Statistics
Citations: 89
Authors: 5
Affiliations: 2
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1603/EC12362
ISSN:
00220493
Research Areas
Sexual And Reproductive Health
Participants Gender
Male