The Effect of UV Radiation and Treatment to Orange (Citrus sinensis L. Osbeck) Fruit Feeding on the Survival Rate and Colony Sex-ratio of Fruit Fly (Drosophila melanogaster Meigen, 1830)
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- 10.2991/absr.k.220406.021How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Drosophila melanogaster; Orange fruit; Sex ratio; Survival rate; UV
- Abstract
Ultraviolet (UV) is a form of physical stress that forces living organisms to respond to the challenge of DNA alteration. UV light causes oxidative stress by causing the creation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Antioxidants are substances that can interfere with the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Vitamin C in fruits such as oranges and bananas is a type of antioxidant. The fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) is an example of an insect that has played a significant role in genetics development. The goal of this study is to see how orange, as a supplementary food media, affects the survival rate and sex ratio of a fruit fly colony following UV exposure. The method utilized to cultivate fruit flies is the approach developed by Hodson and Chiang (1948). The UV and non-UV treatment groups were separated in the experiment. Each treatment was split into two groups: banana fruit feeding (control) and banana fruit feeding with orange as a supplemental feed. In three days, UV radiation was applied for two hours per day. Observations were done on the colony’s survival rate and sex ratio. The survival percentage of the non-UV treated banana fruit feeding group, which served as a control, was 66.20 %, which was lower than the orange-supplemented group (70.13 %). Under UV irradiation, the survival rate in the standard medium (banana) was 21.44 %, whereas it was 62.88 % in the orange-supplemented group. The data were then statistically evaluated, and it was shown that there was no significant change in the sex ratio between the colonies from all treatments. This suggests that UV radiation had no effect on the sex ratio. In conclusion, UV radiation has the ability to act as a physical stressor on the fruit fly colony’s survival rate, but has no influence on the sex-ratio. Under UV-treated conditions, orange as a supplemental feeding media has the ability to protect colony life.
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TY - CONF AU - Ignatius Sudaryadi AU - Yulia Maulita Janah AU - Nafisa Kusumawati PY - 2022 DA - 2022/05/02 TI - The Effect of UV Radiation and Treatment to Orange (Citrus sinensis L. Osbeck) Fruit Feeding on the Survival Rate and Colony Sex-ratio of Fruit Fly (Drosophila melanogaster Meigen, 1830) BT - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Biological Science (ICBS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 141 EP - 144 SN - 2468-5747 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/absr.k.220406.021 DO - 10.2991/absr.k.220406.021 ID - Sudaryadi2022 ER -