When a parasite breaks all the rules of a colony: Morphology and fate of wasps infected by a strepsipteran endoparasite

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1305-1312

  Beani, Laura ^a   Dallai, Romano ^b   Mercati, David ^b   Cappa, Federico ^a   Giusti, Fabiola ^b   Manfredini, Fabio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluctuating asymmetry; Gregarious behaviour; Host phenotype manipulation; Host survival; Lipid store; Paper wasp; Polistes; Strepsiptera

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; COLONY STRUCTURE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DISPERSAL; ENDOPARASITE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIVITY; LARVA; LIPID; PARASITE; PARASITISM; QUEEN; REPRODUCTION; WASP;

POLISTES; POLISTES DOMINULUS; POLISTINAE; STREPSIPTERA; XENOS VESPARUM;

EID: 82355191735     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.09.012     Document Type: Article

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