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Growth and nutrition of Agelastica coerulea (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) larvae changed when fed with leaves obtained from an O3-enriched atmosphere

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A series of laboratory no-choice assays were performed to test changes in the feeding, growth, and nutrition of leaf beetle (Agelastica coerulea) larval instars on O3-treated leaves of Japanese white birch (Betula platyphylla var. japonica). Larvae fed with O3-treated leaves grew and developed significantly faster throughout their developmental cycle than the corresponding controls. The growth rate (GR) and consumption index (CI) were mostly decreased with age for both control and O3-treated leaves. Efficiency of conversion of both ingested and digested food (ECI, ECD) showed an increase from the 2nd to the 4th instar, after which they decreased significantly and reached the lowest value in the last larval instars (7th). GR, CI, ECI, and ECD were greater and approximate digestibility (AD) was lower in larvae fed with O3-treated leaves than those fed with control leaves. This indicated that the greater rate of growth on fumigated leaves was due primarily to a greater rate of consumption (i.e., O3 increased the “acceptability” of the host more than “suitability”) and efficiency in converting food into body mass. Overall, larval performance seemed to have improved when fed with O3-treated leaves in these assays. This study suggests that insects may be more injurious to O3-treated plants and warrants further investigations on birch-beetle interactions under field conditions.

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The authors are grateful to Assoc. Prof. Wael M. ElSayed, Cairo University, Egypt, for reviewing a draft of the paper. The first author wishes to thank the Mission Sector of Higher Education of the Government of Egypt and the Culture Office of the Embassy of Egypt in Tokyo, Japan for support and funding during the research in Hokkaido University, Japan. E. Agathokleous is an International Research Fellow (ID No.: P17102) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). JSPS is a non-profit organization.

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This study was funded in part by Grant-in-Aid from JSPS through Type B program (grant number 26292075, to T. Koike) and Challenging Exploratory Research (grant number 16K14932, to T. Koike).

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    Shahenda A. Abu ElEla

  2. Hokkaido Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), Forest Research and Management Organization, 7 Hitsujigaoka, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 062-8516, Japan

    Evgenios Agathokleous

  3. Research Faculty of Agriculture, School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Kita 9 Nishi 9, Sapporo, 060-85889, Japan

    Evgenios Agathokleous & Takayoshi Koike

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Abu ElEla, S.A., Agathokleous, E. & Koike, T. Growth and nutrition of Agelastica coerulea (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) larvae changed when fed with leaves obtained from an O3-enriched atmosphere. Environ Sci Pollut Res 25, 13186–13194 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-018-1683-1

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