Multi-Species Host Use by the Parasitoid Fly Ormia lineifrons.

ABSTRACT: Antagonistic species relationships such as parasitoid/host interactions lead to evolutionary arms races between species. Many parasitoids use more than one host species, requiring the parasitoid to adapt to multiple hosts, sometimes being the leader or the follower in the evolutionary back-and-forth between species. Thus, multi-species interactions are dynamic and show temporary evolutionary outcomes at a given point in time. We investigated the interactions of the multivoltine parasitoid fly Ormia lineifrons that uses different katydid hosts for each of its fly generations sequentially over time. We hypothesized that this fly is adapted to utilizing all hosts equally well for the population to persist. We quantified and compared the fly's development in each of the four Neoconoc

SUBMITTER: Rogers KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10531574 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature