Parasitoid wasp usurps its host to guard its pupa against hyperparasitoids and induces rapid behavioral changes in the parasitized host
Some parasites have an ability to fabricate the behavior of their host and impel the host to guard parasites' offspring, which is popularly called as bodyguard manipulation. Psalis pennatula larva parasitized by a braconid parasitoid wasp Microplitis pennatula exhibits some behavioral changes i...
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PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624945 http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/624945 |