Preference of Polistes dominula wasps for trumpet creepers when infected by Xenos vesparum: A novel example of co-evolved traits between host and parasite
| العنوان: | Preference of Polistes dominula wasps for trumpet creepers when infected by Xenos vesparum: A novel example of co-evolved traits between host and parasite |
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| المؤلفون: | Fabio Manfredini, Federico Cappa, Marco Zaccaroni, Laura Beani |
| المصدر: | PLoS ONE, Vol 13, Iss 10, p e0205201 (2018) PLoS ONE |
| بيانات النشر: | Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018. |
| سنة النشر: | 2018 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | 0106 biological sciences, 0301 basic medicine, Male, Life Cycles, Wasps, Social Sciences, lcsh:Medicine, Plant Science, 01 natural sciences, Sociology, Statistical analyses, Xenos vesparum, Polistes dominula, Campsis radicans, parasites, Medicine and Health Sciences, lcsh:Science, media_common, Multidisciplinary, biology, Behavior, Animal, Plant Anatomy, Reproduction, Eukaryota, Art, Biological Evolution, Genealogy, Preference, Insects, Larva, Social Systems, Female, Buds, Holometabola, Nectaries, Research Article, Arthropoda, media_common.quotation_subject, Parasitic Life Cycles, Xenos vesparum, Flowers, Polistes dominula, 010603 evolutionary biology, Host-Parasite Interactions, 03 medical and health sciences, Parasitic Diseases, Animals, Strepsiptera, Host (biology), fungi, lcsh:R, Organisms, Parasite Physiology, Biology and Life Sciences, biology.organism_classification, Invertebrates, Hymenoptera, 030104 developmental biology, Campsis radicans, Parasitology, lcsh:Q, Developmental Biology |
| الوصف: | 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 do. In this long-term observational study, we describe the spectacular attraction of parasitized workers towards trumpet creeper bushes (Campsis radicans) in early-summer. Two thirds of all wasps that we sampled on these bushes were parasitized, whereas the parasite prevalence was much lower in our study area and most wasps sampled on other nearby flowering bushes were non-parasitized. First, we describe the occurrence and consistency of this phenomenon across different sites and years. Second, we evaluate the spatial behavior of parasitized wasps on C. radicans bushes, which includes site-fidelity, exploitation and defense of rich extra-floral nectaries on buds and calices. Third, we record two critical steps of the lifecycle of X. vesparum on C. radicans: the parasite's mating and a summer release of parasitic larvae, that can infect larval stages of the host if transported to the host's nest. In a nutshell, C. radicans bushes provide many benefits both to the parasite X. vesparum and to its host: they facilitate the parasite's mating and bivoltine lifecycle, a phenomenon never described before for this parasite, while, at the same time, they provide the wasp host with shelter inside trumpet flowers and extrafloral gland secretions, thus likely enhancing host survival and making it a suitable vector for the infection. |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1932-6203 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::7f66fbe85ff8b210d5ca35a302c6d870Test http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6200222?pdf=renderTest |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....7f66fbe85ff8b210d5ca35a302c6d870 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 19326203 |
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