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Host-Parasitoid Associations in Strepsiptera

open access: yesAnnual Review of Entomology, 2009
Strepsiptera are obligate endoparasitoids that exhibit extreme sexual dimorphism and parasitize seven orders and 33 families of Insecta. The adult males and the first instar larvae in the Mengenillidia and Stylopidia are free-living, whereas the adult females in Mengenillidia are free-living but in the suborder Stylopidia they remain endoparasitic in ...
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Parasitoid aggregation and interference in host–parasitoid dynamics

Ecological Entomology, 2016
1. Parasitoids do not distribute themselves evenly among available patches, which has an important bearing on the dynamics of host–parasitoid interactions. This study examined the density‐dependent nature of aggregation of the parasitoid D irhinus giffardii
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Host/parasitoid interactions: critical timing of parasitoid-derived products

Journal of Insect Physiology, 1998
Short-term in vitro incubations were used to examine the ability of endoparasitoid larvae to produce and release both ecdysteroids and proteins into their environment. Second instar larvae of both Chelonus near curvimaculatus and Ascogaster quadridentata were observed by SDS-PAGE to release temporally-similar polypeptides in the 20-30kD M(r) range ...
J J., Brown, D A., Reed
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Dynamic Complexities in a Host-Parasitoid System with Aggregated Parasitoid

2009 First International Conference on Information Science and Engineering, 2009
The effect of aggregated parasitoid on a host-parasitoid system are investigated qualitatively by computer simulation. Our numerical simulations show that the aggregation of parasitoid can stabilize the population dynamics when the density-dependent effects of host is weak, while it can also destabilize the system when the density-dependent effect of ...
Huawei Dai   +3 more
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Teratocytes and their functions in parasitoids

Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2014
Some endoparasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera) produce teratocytes, which are a type of cell that is released into host insects when wasp eggs hatch. In this short review I first summarize the different taxa of wasps that produce teratocytes, the embryonic origin of these cells, and key features of teratocyte growth.
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Searching for Food or Hosts: The Influence of Parasitoids Behavior on Host–Parasitoid Dynamics

Theoretical Population Biology, 1997
A host-parasitoid system with overlapping generations is considered. The dynamics of the system is described by differential equations with a control parameter describing the behavior of the parasitoids. The control parameter models how the parasitoids split their time between searching for hosts and searching for non-host food.
Křivan, Vlastimil, Sirot, Etienne
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Parasitoid Foraging and Learning

1995
The diminutive size of most parasitoids undoubtedly has limited their choice as subjects for behavioral study, despite their great diversity in lifestyles and reproductive strategies. The present chapter addresses their foraging behavior as influenced by learning.
Vet, L.E.M., Lewis, W.J., Cardé, R.T.
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Egg Load Evolution in Parasitoids

The American Naturalist, 2000
Parasitic wasps lay their eggs in or on other insects. Allocation of resources to reproduction (eggs) and survival (life span) should maximize reproductive success, but stochasticity in the number of hosts encountered precludes an exact match of allocation with reproductive opportunity.
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Parasitoid Competition and the Dynamics of Host-Parasitoid Models

The American Naturalist, 1988
The standard host-parasitoid models assume that each parasitized host yields the same number of parasitoid progeny; but in many parasitoid species, the number of progeny per host depends on the number of times that host was encountered. I present a family of new host-parasitoid models incorporating this encounter-density-dependent variability in ...
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