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Responses of Heterodera glycines and Meloidogyne incognita to exogenously applied neuromodulators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2007

E.P. Masler
E.P. Masler*
Affiliation:
Nematology Laboratory, US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, 10300 Baltimore Ave., Beltsville MD 20705, USA
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*Fax: 301-504-5589 E-mail: maslere@ba.ars.usda.gov
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Abstract

Biogenic amines regulate important behaviours in nematodes and are associated with pharyngeal activity in plant-parasitic nematodes. A robust behavioural assay based upon nematode body movements was developed to expand the study of these and other neuroregulators in plant-parasitic nematodes. Dopamine, octopamine and serotonin each had significant but differing effects on the behaviour of soybean cyst nematode Heterodera glycines and root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita juveniles. Body movement frequency was increased twofold in H.glycines by 5 mM dopamine (P = 0.0001), but decreased by 50 mM dopamine in H. glycines (88%) and M. incognita (53%) (P <  0.0001). Movement frequency in both species was increased by 50–70% (P <  0.0001) by 50 mM octopamine, and 5 mM octopamine increased M. incognita movement frequency more than twofold (P <  0.0001). Movement frequency in each species was reduced by more than 90% by 5 mM serotonin (P <  0.0001). While amplitude of body movement in H. glycines was unaffected by any amine, it was significantly reduced in M.incognita by all amines (P <  0.0006). Stylet pulsing frequencies in either species were unaffected by dopamine or octopamine, but 5 mM serotonin stimulated pulsing in H. glycines by nearly 13-fold (P <  0.0001) and in M. incognita by more than 14-fold (P <  0.0001). The invertebrate neuropeptide FLRFamide (N-Phe-Leu-Arg-Phe) increased M. incognita body movement frequency 45% (P = 0.02) at 1 mM but did not affect stylet activity. Finally, H. glycines egg hatch was completely suppressed by 50 mM serotonin, and partially suppressed by 50 mM dopamine (75%; P <  0.0001) and 50 mM octopamine (55%; P <  0.0001).

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Research Papers
Information
Journal of Helminthology , Volume 81 , Issue 4 , December 2007 , pp. 421 - 427
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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