Arthropod pests and vectors constrain the livelihood opportunities of people in Africa by
debilitating production of crops and livestock and through transmission of vector-borne …

Endoparasitoids introduce a variety of factors into their host during oviposition to ensure
successful parasitism. These include ovarian and venom fluids that may be accompanied by …

The Polydnaviridae (PDV), including the Bracovirus (BV) and Ichnovirus genera, originated
from the integration of unrelated viruses in the genomes of two parasitoid wasp lineages, in …

The ongoing coevolutionary struggle between hosts and pathogens, with hosts evolving to
escape pathogen infection and pathogens evolving to escape host defences, can generate …

The mechanisms through which trophic interactions between species are indirectly
mediated by distant members in a food web have received increasing attention in the field of …

The braconid parasitoid wasp subfamily Microgastrinae is perhaps the most species-rich
subfamily of animals on Earth. Despite their small size, they are familiar to agriculturalists …

Several lineages of endoparasitoid wasps, which develop inside the body of other insects,
have domesticated viruses, used as delivery tools of essential virulence factors for the …

Many parasitoid species are subjected to strong selective pressures from their host, and
their adaptive response may result in the formation of genetically differentiated populations …

Background Insect parasitoids are under strong selection to overcome their hosts' defences.
In aphids, resistance to parasitoids is largely determined by the presence or absence of …

The geographic mosaic of coevolution predicts parasite virulence should be locally adapted
to the host community. Cotesia parasitoid wasps adapt to local lepidopteran species …