Social wasps desert the colony and aggregate outside if parasitized: parasite manipulation?
Infection of the paper wasp, Polistes dominulus (Christ), by the strepsipteran parasite Xenos vesparum Rossi results in a dramatic behavioral change, which culminates in colony desertion and the formation of extranidal aggregations, in which up to 98% of occupants are parasitized females. Aggregatio...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2004
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