A Strepsipteran parasite extends the lifespan of workers in a social wasp

In social wasps, female lifespan depends on caste and colony tasks: workers usually live a few weeks while queens as long as 1 year. Polistes dominula paper wasps infected by the strepsipteran parasite Xenos vesparum avoid all colony tasks, cluster on vegetation where parasite dispersal and mating o...

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Autores principales: Beani, Laura, Dallai, Romano, Cappa, Federico, Manfredini, Fabio, Zaccaroni, Marco, Lorenzi, Maria Cristina, Mercati, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8012566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33790321
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86182-6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8012566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33790321
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86182-6

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