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Preference of Polistes dominula wasps for trumpet creepers when infected by Xenos vesparum: A novel example of co-evolved traits between host and parasite

The parasitic insect Xenos vesparum induces noticeable behavioral and physiological changes—e.g. castration—in its female host, the paper wasp Polistes dominula: parasitized putative workers avoid any colony task and desert the colony to survive in the nearby vegetation, like future queens and males...

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Autores principales: Beani, Laura, Cappa, Federico, Manfredini, Fabio, Zaccaroni, Marco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6200222/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30356249
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205201