A Set of Novel Venom Proteins Enables Parasitoid Wasps to Exploit Older Hosts and Coexist with Competitors [PDF]
Advanced ScienceInterspecific competition can drive species coexistence through niche differentiation, yet the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Parasitoid wasps are a group of parasitic insects that rely on host nutrients to complete their development, exhibiting ...
Junwei Zhang +11 more
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Immune Cell Production Is Targeted by Parasitoid Wasp Virulence in a Drosophila–Parasitoid Wasp Interaction [PDF]
Pathogens, 2021 The interactions between Drosophila melanogaster and the parasitoid wasps that infect Drosophila species provide an important model for understanding host–parasite relationships. Following parasitoid infection, D.
Jordann E. Trainor +2 more
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Host-Associated Bacterial Community Changes After Laboratory Introduction Vary With Wolbachia Presence. [PDF]
Environ MicrobiolThe endosymbiont Wolbachia promotes homogenisation and delays the microbial community response of the parasitic wasp Asobara japonica after a significant environmental change. This suggests that key microbial taxa can mediate community shifts and has important implications for experimental design in microbial ecology, particularly in translating lab ...
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Warming Reduces Parasitoid Success and Narrows Their Diet Breadth. [PDF]
Ecol LettWarming may have a major impact on trophic networks, but few interactions are typically studied. Here we show that experimental warming strongly decreased the success of parasitoid development across 28 Drosophila‐parasitoid interactions from a tropical rainforest network. Warming strongly narrowed the diversity of hosts that the parasitoids could use.
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Surveys of Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae) and Its Host Fruits and Associated Parasitoids in Northeastern China [PDF]
Insects, 2022 Spotted-wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura), is a worldwide quarantine pest that is currently undergoing a rapid range expansion in the Americas, Europe, and parts of Africa.
Jue Wang +3 more
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A new case of Wolbachia dependence in the genus Asobara: evidence for parthenogenesis induction in Asobara japonica [PDF]
Heredity, 2009 Wolbachia is a maternally inherited bacterium that is widely distributed among arthropods, in which it manipulates the reproduction of its hosts. Although generally facultative for its hosts, Wolbachia has recently become obligatory in Asobara tabida (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in which it is required for the completion of oogenesis.
Natacha Kremer, Fabrice Vavre, H Henri
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Transgenerational effects increase the vulnerability of a host-parasitoid system to rising temperatures. [PDF]
J Anim EcolInsect thermal performance can be modulated by temperatures experienced by preceding generations, but it is unclear how these effects may scale up to communities. Using an experimental Drosophila–parasitoid system and simulations, transgenerational effects affecting both trophic levels are shown to have emergent impacts on persistence under rising ...
Bright NL, Chen J, Terry JCD.
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Metabolomics Provides New Insights into Host Manipulation Strategies by Asobara japonica (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), a Fruit Fly Parasitoid [PDF]
Metabolites, 2023 Asobara japonica (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) is an endoparasitoid wasp that can successfully parasitize a wide range of host species across the Drosophila genus, including the invasive crop pest Drosophila suzukii. Parasitoids are capable of regulating the
Shengmei Liu +9 more
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The complete mitochondrial genome of Asobara japonica (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) [PDF]
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2020 Asobara japonica is an important larval-pupal endoparasitoid of Drosophila melanogaster and some other fruit fly species, such as Drosophila suzukii, and is an invasive and economic pest. In this study, the complete mitochondrial genome of A.
Xian Zhang +7 more
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Geographic Variation in Resistance of the Invasive <i>Drosophila suzukii</i> to Parasitism by the Biological Control Agent, <i>Ganaspis brasiliensis</i>. [PDF]
Evol ApplABSTRACT Host–parasitoid interactions are tied in coevolutionary arms races where parasitoids continuously have to evolve increased virulence as hosts evolve increased resistance. Over time, geographic structure in virulence and resistance can arise because of spatial and temporal differences in parasitoid communities, in the strength of reciprocal ...
Istas O, Szűcs M.
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