Plant scents modify innate colour preference in foraging swallowtail butterflies
| العنوان: | Plant scents modify innate colour preference in foraging swallowtail butterflies |
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| المؤلفون: | Mina Yoshida, Kentaro Arikawa, Michiyo Kinoshita, Yuki Itoh, Hisashi Ômura |
| المصدر: | Biology Letters. 11:20150390 |
| بيانات النشر: | The Royal Society, 2015. |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Male, Citrus, Papilio xuthus, Lavender, Foraging, Color, Flowers, Orange (colour), Sex Factors, Botany, Animals, Appetitive Behavior, Larva, biology, fungi, food and beverages, biology.organism_classification, Hibiscus, Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous), Sexual dimorphism, Citrus unshiu, Odorants, Female, Animal Behaviour, Cues, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Butterflies |
| الوصف: | Flower-visiting insects exhibit innate preferences for particular colours. A previous study demonstrated that naivePapilio xuthusfemales prefer yellow and red, whereas males are more attracted to blue. Here, we demonstrate that the innate colour preference can be modified by olfactory stimuli in a sexually dimorphic manner. NaiveP. xuthuswere presented with four coloured discs: blue, green, yellow and red. The innate colour preference (i.e. the colour first landed on) of the majority of individuals was blue. When scent from essential oils of either orange flower or lily was introduced to the room, females’ tendency to select the red disc increased. Scents of lavender and flowering pottedHibiscus rosa-sinensis,however,were less effective. Interestingly, the odour of the non-flowering larval host plant,Citrus unshiu, shifted the preference to green in females. In males, however, all plant scents were less effective than in females, such that blue was always the most favoured colour. These observations indicate that interactions between visual and olfactory cues play a more prominent role in females. |
| تدمد: | 1744-957X 1744-9561 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::1ebe901740b2c44a897a763dc86cccdaTest https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0390Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....1ebe901740b2c44a897a763dc86cccda |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 1744957X 17449561 |
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