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Adaptability of an insect herbivore the diamondback moth to changes in its nutritional environment
Reference
S14519
Principal Investigator / Supervisor
Professor Stephen Simpson
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors
Dr Spencer Behmer
,
Dr David Raubenheimer
Institution
University of Oxford
Department
Zoology
Funding type
Research
Value (£)
260,636
Status
Completed
Type
Research Grant
Start date
01/02/2001
End date
31/07/2004
Duration
42 months
Abstract
Changes in the nutritional environment occasioned by climate change and plant breeding technology pose challenges to insect herbivores, but currently there is little information on the behavioural, physiological, and evolutionary adaptive responses of insect herbivores, including pest species, to such changes. We propose to use the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella, a serious pest of crucifers world-wide, including Britain, to study such responses in the face of experimentally manipulated nutritional environments composed of synthetic foods and Arabidopsis mutants. We will also investigate the relationship between evolved larval nutritional adaptations and adult oviposition site preferences.
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Committee
Closed Committee - Animal Sciences (AS)
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