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Parasitoid wasps

Current Biology
Parasitoids - insects that parasitize other insects - have fascinating biologies that have made them darlings of the science fiction genre, owing to their wide array of innovative and often gruesome strategies for living off other organisms. These insects do not sting, but rather lay eggs on or inside their hosts, typically another insect or spider ...
Gaelen R, Burke, Barbara J, Sharanowski
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Dynamics of a host–parasitoid model with prolonged diapause for parasitoid

Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 2011
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Zhao, Min, Zhang, Limin, Zhu, Jun
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The impact of parasitoid emergence time on host–parasitoid population dynamics

Theoretical Population Biology, 2009
We investigate the effect of parasitoid phenology on host-parasitoid population cycles. Recent experimental research has shown that parasitized hosts can continue to interact with their unparasitized counterparts through competition. Parasitoid phenology, in particular the timing of emergence from the host, determines the duration of this competition ...
Cobbold, Christina A.   +2 more
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Enhanced stability in host–parasitoid interactions with autoparasitism and parasitoid migration

Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2016
Previous studies based on simple non-spatial model have suggested that autoparasitism, in which females develop as primary endoparasitoids of hosts while males develop at the expense of primary parasitoids, stabilizes host-parasitoid steady state. To date, however, how the stabilizing role of autoparasitism would be affected by more complex spatial ...
Huang, Yunxin   +5 more
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Semiochemicals and learning in parasitoids

Journal of Chemical Ecology, 1990
There is increasing evidence that parasitoid responses to semiochemicals, important stimuli in the host location process, are influenced by experience. This paper focuses on the role of learning, in particular associative learning, in responses to odors.
Vet, L.E.M., Groenewold, A.W.
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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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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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What determines host range in parasitoids? An analysis of a tachinid parasitoid community

Oecologia, 2003
Despite the vast diversity of parasitic insects and their importance in natural and agricultural communities, our knowledge of what determines their patterns of association with hosts remains sparse. Unlike most parasites that tend to be specialized, parasitoid flies in the family Tachinidae exhibit a broad spectrum of host-specificity, with many ...
John O, Stireman, Michael S, Singer
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