A Set of Novel Venom Proteins Enables Parasitoid Wasps to Exploit Older Hosts and Coexist with Competitors. [PDF]
Adv Sci (Weinh)This study elucidates a molecular mechanism enabling species coexistence between parasitoid wasps, showing how Asobara japonica uses a set of novel venom proteins to delay host development and exploit older hosts, thereby achieving temporal niche partitioning with Leptopilina drosophilae. Abstract Interspecific competition can drive species coexistence
Zhang J +11 more
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The complete mitochondrial genome of Asobara japonica (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) [PDF]
Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 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. japonica (GeneBank accession number: MN882556) was sequenced using Illumina HiSeq X Ten system.
Xian Zhang +7 more
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Bacteria Endosymbiont, Wolbachia, Promotes Parasitism of Parasitoid Wasp Asobara japonica [PDF]
PLOS ONE, 2015 Wolbachia is the most widespread endosymbiotic bacterium that manipulates reproduction of its arthropod hosts to enhance its own spread throughout host populations. Infection with Wolbachia causes complete parthenogenetic reproduction in many Hymenoptera, producing only female offspring.
Shunsuke Furihata +3 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.
Trainor JE, Kr P, Mortimer NT.
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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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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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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.
Wang J, Zheng Y, Fan L, Wang W.
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Diversidade e variação sazonal de moscas-das-frutas (Diptera: Tephritidae, Lonchaeidae) e seus parasitóides (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Figitidae) em pomares de goiaba, nêspera e pêssego [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of BiologyThis work was carried out in orchards of guava progenies, and loquat and peach cultivars, in Monte Alegre do Sul, SP, Brazil, in 2002 and 2003. Guavas and loquats were bagged and unbagged bi-weekly and weekly, respectively, for assessment of the ...
AZEVEDO-FILHO, JA. +5 more
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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
Liu S +9 more
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New records of Leptopilina, Ganaspis, and Asobara species associated with Drosophila suzukii in North America, including detections of L. japonica and G. brasiliensis [PDF]
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 2020 We report the presence of two Asian species of larval parasitoids of spotted wing Drosophila, Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) (Diptera: Drosophilidae), in northwestern North America. Leptopilina japonica Novkovic & Kimura and Ganaspis brasiliensis
Paul K. Abram +13 more
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