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1 April 2013 Fitness Improvement of Mass-Reared Sterile Males of Ceratitis capitata (Vienna 8 strain) (Diptera: Tephritidae) After Gut Enrichment with Probiotics
Heithem Hamden, Meriem M'Saad Guerfali, Selma Fadhl, Mouldi Saidi, Claude Chevrier
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Abstract

Successful mass rearing is crucial for sterile insect technique programs. It has been shown that the sterilizing process using gammaradiation results in damage to midgut tissue, cellular organelles, and gut microbiota of flies. This can be responsible for the inferiority of sterile males compared with wild males. A bacteria-enhanced diet could contribute to the improvement of the fly's fitness. We investigated ways of increasing the competitiveness of mass-reared Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) sterile males. We tested the hypothesis that the addition of beneficial bacteria to the larvae's diet would lead to a significant increase in their levels in the gut of the sterile adults and consequently improve their size and fitness. As expected, enriching the diet of mass-rearing Vienna-8 strain larvae with beneficial bacteria (Klebsiella pneumonia, Enterobacter spp., and Citrobacter freundii) resulted in increase in the number of Enterobacteriacae communities inhabiting the male's gut and a subsequent significant increase in the size of males and other morphometric traits and enhanced sexual performance of males at emergence.

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Heithem Hamden, Meriem M'Saad Guerfali, Selma Fadhl, Mouldi Saidi, and Claude Chevrier "Fitness Improvement of Mass-Reared Sterile Males of Ceratitis capitata (Vienna 8 strain) (Diptera: Tephritidae) After Gut Enrichment with Probiotics," Journal of Economic Entomology 106(2), 641-647, (1 April 2013). https://doi.org/10.1603/EC12362
Received: 31 August 2012; Accepted: 1 January 2013; Published: 1 April 2013
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KEYWORDS
irradiation
medfly
probiotic
sperm
sterile insect technique
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