Brian A. Kunkel, bkunkel@saa.ars.usda.gov1, David Shapiro-Ilan, dshapiro@saa.ars.usda.gov1, Edwin Lewis, eelewis@ucdavis.edu2, and James F. Campbell, campbell@usgmrl.ksu.edu3. (1) USDA-ARS SE Fruit & Tree Nut Research Laboratory, 21 Dunbar Road, Byron, GA, (2) University Of California, Department of Nematology & Department of Entomology, 1 Shields Avenue University of California - Davis Davis, CA 95616, Davis, CA, (3) USDA-ARS, Grain Marketing and Production Research Center, 1515 College Ave, Manhattan, KS
Insects infected with nematodes exude compounds into the environment which may influence subsequent nematode behaviors. Steinernema glaseri is a cruiser nematode that uses chemical cues to locate its host and utilizes this information for infection decisions. We investigated how exudates produced by nematode-infected cadavers influence subsequent conspecific infection behavior. We found that S. glaseri appears to be repelled from cadavers that are 2 d old or older. The repulsion was greatest at 2, 3, and 5 d after initial infection. Infection behavior of other entomopathogenic nematodes is being investigated.
Species 1: Rhabditida Steinernematidae
Steinernema glaseriKeywords: exudate metabolites, infection behavior
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