A Stresipteran parasite extends the lifespan of workers in a social wasp
Abstract In social wasps, female lifespan depends on caste and colony tasks: workers usually live a few weeks while queens as long as 1 year. Polistes dominula paper wasps infected by the strepsipteran parasite Xenos vesparum avoid all colony tasks, cluster on vegetation where parasite dispersal and...
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Nature Portfolio
2021
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