Early life nutritional quality effects on adult memory retention in a parasitic wasp

Hossein Kishani Farahani, Ahmad Ashouri, Arash Zibaee, Pouria Abroon, Lucy Alford, Jean-Sebastien Pierre and Joan van Baaren

Behavioral Ecology, 2017, vol. 28, issue 3, 818-826

Abstract: Lay Summary The nutritional quality of food during development is known to affect several traits of adult life in most organisms (the silver spoon effect): here we show that in a minute parasitic wasp, memory retention is lower when individuals develop in a low quality host than when they develop in a high quality host. In addition, the content of proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates within the body is higher when developing in a high quality host.

Keywords: capital resources; learning; memory; Trichogramma brassiace; Wolbachia. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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