The biology and ecology of parasitoid wasps of predatory arthropods

M Fei, R Gols, JA Harvey - Annual review of entomology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Parasitoid wasps are important components of insect food chains and have played a central
role in biological control programs for over a century. Although the vast majority of …

Defensive symbioses of animals with prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms

LV Flórez, PHW Biedermann, T Engl… - Natural Product …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: through 2014 Many organisms team up with microbes for defense against
predators, parasites, parasitoids, or pathogens. Here we review the described protective …

Venom proteins from parasitoid wasps and their biological functions

SJM Moreau, S Asgari - Toxins, 2015 - mdpi.com
Parasitoid wasps are valuable biological control agents that suppress their host populations.
Factors introduced by the female wasp at parasitization play significant roles in facilitating …

Parasites and host performance: incorporating infection into our understanding of animal movement

SA Binning, AK Shaw, DG Roche - Integrative and Comparative …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Studies of animal locomotion and movement largely assume that individuals are healthy and
performing to the best of their abilities in ways which are adapted to their survival. However …

Parasite microbiome project: grand challenges

NM Dheilly, J Martínez Martínez, K Rosario… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The first Parasite Microbiome Project (PMP) Workshop (January 9–14, 2019, Clearwater,
Florida, United States) hosted researchers from across continents and disciplines to lay the …

Microbial symbionts of parasitoids

M Dicke, A Cusumano… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Parasitoids depend on other insects for the development of their offspring. Their eggs are
laid in or on a host insect that is consumed during juvenile development. Parasitoids harbor …

Numerous cultivated and uncultivated viruses encode ribosomal proteins

CM Mizuno, C Guyomar, S Roux, R Lavigne… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Viruses modulate ecosystems by directly altering host metabolisms through auxiliary
metabolic genes. However, viral genomes are not known to encode the core components of …

The genus Entomophthora: bringing the insect destroyers into the twenty-first century

C Elya, HH De Fine Licht - IMA fungus, 2021 - Springer
The fungal genus Entomophthora consists of highly host-specific pathogens that cause
deadly epizootics in their various insect hosts. The most well-known among these is the …

Genomes of the Hymenoptera

MG Branstetter, AK Childers, D Cox-Foster… - Current opinion in insect …, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Hyper-diverse Hymenoptera order includes parasitic and social
insects.•Economically impactful for biological control and pollination.•Though second most …

Predators and parasitoids of the harlequin ladybird, Harmonia axyridis, in its native range and invaded areas

P Ceryngier, O Nedvěd, AA Grez, EW Riddick… - Biological …, 2018 - Springer
The harlequin ladybird Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) has rapidly spread in
several continents over the past 30 years and is considered an invasive alien species. The …