Parasitoid wasps are fundamental insects for the biological control of agricultural pests.
Despite the importance of wasps as natural enemies for more sustainable and healthy …

The parasitoid lifestyle is largely regarded as a key innovation that contributed to the
evolutionary success and extreme species richness of the order Hymenoptera …

Parasitoid wasps represent a group of parasitic insects with high species diversity that have
played a pivotal role in biological control and evolutionary studies. Over the past 20 years …

With the advent of high-throughput sequencing, large sets of insect-infecting RNA viruses
producing apparent asymptomatic infections are being discovered. In the Mediterranean fruit …

Darwin wasps of the subfamily Campopleginae are among the most poorly studied insect
groups, which is to a large part due to inadequate identification tools. The currently 835 …

Highlights•Host race formation is common in hymenopteran parasitoids.•Key innovations
have not yet been connected to radiation events in hymenopteran parasitoids.•Dynamic host …

Highlights•Sustainable control strategies remain in demand for tephritid pest management
programs•Metagenomic sequencing methods have spurred a new wave of virus discovery in …

Increasing numbers of horizontal transfer (HT) of genes and transposable elements are
reported in insects. Yet the mechanisms underlying these transfers remain unknown. Here …

Background: The complicated host-parasite relationships have hindered the effective
diagnosis, treatment, and control of human parasitic diseases. This review examines how …

Viral endogenization is a widespread phenomenon that generally results in non-functional
viral elements. In parasitoid wasps, nudiviruses have been involved in three independent …