10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUPERPARASITISM»
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Parasitoids: Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology
There is some disagreement in the literature about the exact definition of
superparasitism. Here, I follow van Dijken and Waage (1987) and define
superparasitism as the deposition of a clutch of eggs (the clutch may of course
consist of a ...
2
Insects as Natural Enemies: A Practical Perspective
As we noted above, adult size in Leptopilina heterotoma is not affected by
superparasitism. In this parasitoid either compensation is complete or there is no
initial reduction in growth as a result of superparasitism. Studying the trajectory of
...
3
Parasitoid Viruses: Symbionts and Pathogens
(a) (b) (c) Long glands Ovaries n=24 N u m b e r o fe g g( s ) /
p a r a s i t i z e d h o s t n=30 n=39 n=31 n=15 6 5 4 3 2 1 FIGURE 2
Superparasitism behavior of females emerging from hosts parasitized by
Sienna0 (NS) females and injected ...
Nancy E. Beckage, Jean-Michel Drezen, 2012
4
Parasitoids of Drosophila
Superparasitism and host discrimination by Asobara tabida Nees (Braconidae;
Alysiinae) a larval parasitoid of Drosophilidae, Neth. J. Zool. 32, 232–260. van
Alphen, H.H.M., van Harsel, H.H., 1982. Host selection by Asobara tabida Nees ...
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Handbook of Biological Control: Principles and Applications ...
Superparasitism is widespread in the Parasitica. Host discrimination (the ability to
identify parasitized hosts) is intimately associated with superparasitism. The
relationship between discrimination and superparasitism has been considered (
van ...
T. W. Fisher, Thomas S. Bellows, L. E. Caltagirone, 1999
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Natural Enemies: The Population Biology of Predators, ...
As long ago as 1934, Salt discovered that the egg parasitoid Trichogramrna was
able to detect the presence of parasitoid eggs within a host and thereby to avoid
superparasitism. Since then, the avoidance of superparasitism has been ...
7
Natural Enemies of Terrestrial Molluscs
81) point out that, 'In contrast to parasitic Hymenoptera, superparasitism in the
parasitic Diptera appears to be both widely distributed across species and
common within populations.' These authors note that superparasitism has been
reported ...
8
Behavioural Ecology of Insect Parasitoids: From theoretical ...
However, when there is superparasitism, patch state cannot be observed, since
chance determines which of the competitors will acquire offspring from
superparasitized hosts. Since there is a one-to-one relationship between patch
state and ...
Eric Wajnberg, Carlos Bernstein, Jacques van Alphen, 2008
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Diet Selection: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Foraging ...
Larvae typically burrow into and consume the host's tissues, almost always killing
it. Superparasitism occurs when more than one parasitoid is present on one host.
In many cases, competition between parasitoids produces only one survivor; ...
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Animal Behavior Desk Reference: A Dictionary of Animal ...
-biosis superparasitism n. 1. For example, in some chalcidoid wasps: Parasitism
in which an individual host insect is parasitized by two, or more, species of
primary parasites or by one species more than once [coined by Friske 1910 in ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUPERPARASITISM»
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superparasitism is used in the context of the following news items.
Cunning super-parasitic wasps sniff out protected aphids and …
The researchers found that wasps which laid two eggs (superparasitism) in aphids infected with H. defensa and APSE were much more successful at producing ... «Science Codex, Feb 12»
