Data from: Genetic and phenotypic relationships between immune defense, melanism and life history traits at different temperatures and sexes in Tenebrio molitor
| Main Authors: | Rantala, Markus J., Prokkola, Jenni, Roff, Derek, Kärkkäinen, Tiia, Krams, Indrikis |
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| Format: | info dataset Journal |
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, 2013
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/4961681 |
Daftar Isi:
- Insect cuticle melanism is linked to a number of life-history traits, and a positive relationship is hypothesized between melanism and the strength of immune defense. In this study, the phenotypic and genetic relationships between cuticular melanization, innate immune defense, individual development time and body size were studied in the mealworm beetle (Tenebrio molitor) using three different temperatures with a half-sib breeding design. Both innate immune defense and cuticle darkness were higher in females than males, and a positive correlation between the traits was found at the lowest temperature. The effect of temperature on all the measured traits was strong, with encapsulation ability and development time decreasing and cuticle darkness increasing with a rise in temperature, and body size showing a curved response. The analysis showed a highly integrated system sensitive to environmental change involving physiological, morphological and life-history traits.
- Data_Prokkola_et_al_2013Data collected from mealworm beetles reared individually in laboratory conditions at three different temperatures; 18, 23 and 28 degrees C, indicated by treatments 1, 2 and 3 respectively. Sex is encoded by 1=male and 0=female. Development indicates the number of days from the egg-laying to the emerging of the adult beetle. Encapsulation is the normalized darkness of an encapsulated implant (higher=more encapsulated) and cuticle is the darkness of the beetle's cuticle (lower=darker).