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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"parasitoid fitness"”.
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Host range and multitrophic interactions between the parasitoid Cotesia vanessae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) hosts in North America
… are important crop pests. After discovering the parasitoid Cotesia vanessae in the Nearctic region, which was previously only known from the Palearctic and Afrotropic regions, I investigated its fundamental host range on North American Lepidoptera and found that it could parasitize a large number …
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Effects of Dietary Lutein on the Parsnip Webworm, Depressaria Pastinacella (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae)
… was not correlated. Populations with the parasitoid Copidosoma sosares Walker (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) present had lower concentrations of total furanocoumarins, linear furanocoumarins, angelicin, bergapten, imperatorin, isopimpinellin, and xanthotoxin and higher concentrations of …
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Molecular characterisation of the bacterial communities in cabbage aphid (Brevicoryne brassicae) and their associated fitness effects
… bacteria have been shown to influence various fitness traits in their aphid hosts, including susceptibility to natural enemies. Very little is known however, about the fitness effects of bacterial associations in other aphid species. The aim of this study was to characterise bacterial diversity …