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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Autores principales: Laura Beani, Romano Dallai, Federico Cappa, Fabio Manfredini, Marco Zaccaroni, Maria Cristina Lorenzi, David Mercati
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/d8f9800656614f0da09f7c22ecfc6129
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