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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |