HEREDITARY BEHAVIOR VARIATION IN OVIPOSITION PATTERNS IN THE PARASITE NASONIA VITRIPENNIS (HYMENOPTERA: PTEROMALIDAE)
- 1 July 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Canadian Entomologist
- Vol. 99 (7), 763-765
- https://doi.org/10.4039/ent99763-7
Abstract
Two strains of the pupal ectoparasite Nasonia vitripennis (Walk.) originally derived from a single laboratory strain exhibited differences in the proportion of adjacent hosts attacked by the parasite following 65 weeks (approximately 32 generations) in experimental parasite–host systems. Strain I parasitized a greater number of adjacent hosts (19.9%) than strain II in the first generation after removal from the multi-cell system. The difference between the two strains and the laboratory strain decreased from the first to the fourth generation indicating a reversion toward a behavior pattern more akin to that of the laboratory strain.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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