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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Veröffentlicht in:	Behavioral ecology 2004-11, Vol.15 (6), p.1037-1043
Hauptverfasser:	Hughes, David P., Kathirithamby, Jeyaraney, Turillazzi, Stefano, Beani, Laura
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	aggregation behavioral manipulation nest desertion Polistes Polistes dominulus Strepsiptera
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