On the factors inducing the inhibition of diapause in the progeny of diapause females of Trichogramma telengai

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Abstract

Abstract The ability to enter diapause in the progeny of Trichogramma W estw. ( H ymenoptera: T richogrammatidae) females that have undergone diapause is markedly reduced or even completely absent. This maternal inhibition of diapause can result from three types of factors: (i) environmental factors that induce maternal diapause; (ii) maternal diapause itself; and (iii) diapause‐terminating environmental factors. The present study aims to determine the factors that prevent diapause in the progeny of a Trichogramma telengai S or. generation that has undergone diapause. Different tendencies to enter diapause in the maternal generation are induced by different photoperiods ( LD 12 : 12 h, 16 : 8 h and 18 : 6 h) during development of the grandmaternal generation and different temperatures (from 10 to 15 °C) during larval development of the maternal generation. To terminate diapause, prepupae of the maternal generation are kept at 4–5 °C in the dark. To estimate the ability to enter diapause, the progeny generation is incubated at 14 °C. The results suggest that the inhibition of the tendency to enter diapause in the progeny of T. telengai females that have undergone diapause is caused by diapause itself rather than by diapause‐inducing or diapause‐terminating environmental factors. This result can be used to clarify the mechanism of the inhibition of diapause in the progeny of females that have undergone diapause.

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