- In
evolutionary ecology, a
parasitoid is an
organism that
lives in
close ****ociation with its host at the host's expense,
eventually resulting in the death...
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Parasitoid wasps are a
large group of
hymenopteran superfamilies, with all but the wood
wasps (Orussoidea)
being in the wasp-waisted Apocrita. As parasitoids...
- The
Braconidae are a
family of
parasitoid wasps.
After the
closely related Ichneumonidae,
braconids make up the second-largest
family in the
order Hymenoptera...
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behaviour mani****tion as an
evolutionary route toward attenuation of
parasitoid virulence".
Journal of
Evolutionary Biology. 27 (12): 2871–2875. doi:10...
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potential pests.
Biological control agents such as
these include predators,
parasitoids, pathogens, and competitors.
Biological control agents of
plant diseases...
- trophically-transmitted
parasitism (by
being eaten), vector-transmitted parasitism,
parasitoidism, and micropredation. One
major axis of
classification concerns invasiveness:...
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whose host,
often an insect, is also a parasite,
often specifically a
parasitoid.
Hyperparasites are
found mainly among the wasp-waisted
Apocrita within...
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species are
parasitoids; the
females deposit eggs on or in a host
arthropod on
which the
larvae then feed. Some
larvae start off as
parasitoids, but convert...
- The Mid-Mesozoic
Parasitoid Revolution (MMPR) was an
evolutionary radiation of
insect parasites and
parasitoids from the
Toarcian to the Albian. The MMPR...
- viviparous,
gestating inside the
mother and born alive. Some insects, like
parasitoid wasps, are polyembryonic,
meaning that a
single fertilized egg divides...
