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Potential Drivers of Successful Biocontrol: A Perspective on Parasitoids

New Zealand Journal of Zoology, Volume 53, Issue 1, March 2026.
Parasitoids are central to classical biological control, yet predicting their long‐term effectiveness post release remains challenging. In Aotearoa New Zealand, three Microctonus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) species have been used against pest weevils, but key aspects of their biology remain poorly understood.
Meeran Hussain, Elahe Parvizi, Mark R. McNeill, Ang McGaughran   +3 more
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The Overlooked Threat of Global Warming on Elasmobranch Fertility

Fish and Fisheries, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 41-55, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Climate change is increasingly recognised as a critical threat to global biodiversity, yet its impacts on reproductive processes remain poorly understood in many marine taxa. Elasmobranchs (sharks, skates and rays) represent a particularly vulnerable group due to their peculiar life histories, low fecundity, and diverse reproductive modes.
Noémie Coulon, Eric Feunteun, Alexandre Carpentier, Anne Lizé   +3 more
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Parthenogenetic vs. sexual reproduction in oribatid mite communities

Ecology and Evolution, 2019
The dominance of sex in Metazoa is enigmatic. Sexual species allocate resources to the production of males, while potentially facing negative effects such as the loss of well‐adapted genotypes due to recombination, and exposure to diseases and predators ...
Mark Maraun, Tancredi Caruso, Jonathan Hense, Ricarda Lehmitz, Levan Mumladze, Maka Murvanidze, Ioana Nae, Julia Schulz, Anna Seniczak, Stefan Scheu   +9 more
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Thelytoky in Cape honeybees (Apis mellifera capensis) is controlled by a single recessive locus [PDF]

Apidologie, 2017
Worker reproduction in Apis mellifera typically leads to haploid males produced via arrhenotokous parthenogenesis. An exception are laying workers of the South African Cape honeybee Apis mellifera capensis. Due to an abnormal spindle rotation during meiosis A. m. capensis workers are able to produce female progeny via thelytokous parthenogenesis.
Denise Aumer, Mike H. Allsopp, H. Michael G. Lattorff, Robin F. A. Moritz, Antje Jarosch-Perlow   +4 more
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Infection dynamics of endosymbionts that manipulate arthropod reproduction

Biological Reviews, Volume 100, Issue 5, Page 1787-1812, October 2025.
ABSTRACT A large proportion of arthropod species are infected with endosymbionts, some of which selfishly alter host reproduction. The currently known forms of parasitic reproductive manipulations are male‐killing, feminization, cytoplasmic incompatibility, parthenogenesis induction and distortion of sex allocation.
Franziska A. Brenninger, Roman Zug, Hanna Kokko   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transcriptomic analysis of the mandibular gland genes associated with reproductive dominance in Apis mellifera capensis Esch. parasitic workers

Physiological Entomology, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 233-244, September 2025.
Biosynthesis of the fatty acid components of the Apis mellifera mandibular gland pheromones takes place in a stepwise manner. Differential gene expression in the mandibular gland tissue of workers from two subspecies of African honey bees with differing reproductive potentials and at two age groups was investigated.
Fiona Nelima Mumoki, Christian Walter Werner Pirk, Robin Michael Crewe, Abdullahi Ahmed Yusuf   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Endosymbiont-free ants: Molecular biological evidence that neither Wolbachia, Cardinium or any other bacterial endosymbionts play a role in thelytokous parthenogenesis in the harvester ant species, Messor barbarus and M. capitatus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

European Journal of Entomology, 2013
Thelytokous parthenogenesis is a type of sex determination in which females are produced from unfertilized eggs. Genetic and endosymbiont-induced forms of thelytoky have been described in the Hymenoptera. Our study has revealed that Wolbachia, Cardinium,
Paloma MARTÍNEZ-RODRÍGUEZ, Jonás SARASA, Begoña PECO, Berta M. JAUREGUI, Desiree RIVERA, Jose L. BELLA   +5 more
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Reproductive Transitions and Sperm Utilisation in a Facultatively Parthenogenetic Stick Insect

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 7, July 2025.
Facultative parthenogenesis enables females to switch from asexual (parthenogenetic) to sexual reproduction after mating, but the process of fertilisation is poorly understood in such animals. It is unknown whether switching reproductive modes requires changes in the eggs themselves, delaying the transition from laying unfertilised to fertilised eggs ...
Jigmidmaa Boldbaatar, Pietro Pollo, Daniela Wilner, Nathan W. Burke, Russell Bonduriansky   +4 more
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Detection of Wolbachia bacterium in Iranian strain of Trichogramma brassicae (Hym., Trichogrammatidae) [PDF]

نامه انجمن حشره‌شناسی ایران, 2013
Wolbachia (α-proteobacteria) strains are intracellular endosymbiont bacteria found in reproductive tissues of many arthropod species. In Trichogramma wasps, thelytokous parthenogenesis is mostly induced by this bacterium which inherited transovarially ...
S. Farrokhi, M. E. Huigens, R. Zare, P. Verbaarschot   +3 more
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Newcomers and Old Friends: Long‐Distance and Bridgehead Introductions Both Contribute to the Recent Invasion of the Little Fire Ant in Southern Europe

Diversity and Distributions, Volume 31, Issue 7, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Aim Biological invasions result from the combination of (i) population dispersal opportunities and (ii) adaptations to the recipient environment. Identifying complex migration histories, made of long‐distance dispersal from the native range and secondary introductions, or genetic patterns indicative of adaptation is crucial to build coherent ...
Anne Loiseau, Gael J. Kergoat, Olivier Blight, Jakovos Demetriou, Xavier Espadaler, Laure Benoit, Luis A. Calcaterra, Lucila Chifflet, Hervé Jourdan, Mattia Menchetti, Benoit Facon, Julien Foucaud   +11 more
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