ArticleEvolutionary applications2012
Sex determination meltdown upon biological control introduction of the parasitoid Cotesia rubecula?
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- Mechanisms that influence sex ratio variation in the invasive hymenopteranEcology and evolution · 2019Article
- Increased fluctuation in a butterfly metapopulation leads to diploid males and decline of a hyperparasitoid.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Effects of inbreeding on a gregarious parasitoid wasp with complementary sex determination.Evolutionary applications · 2018Article
- Diploid male production correlates with genetic diversity in the parasitoid waspEcology and evolution · 2016Article
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- Population-level consequences of complementary sex determination in a solitary parasitoid.BMC evolutionary biology · 2015Article
- Sterile males in a parasitoid wasp with complementary sex determination: from fitness costs to population extinction.BMC ecology · 2015Article
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- Absence of complementary sex determination in the parasitoid wasp genus Asobara (Hymenoptera: Braconidae).PloS one · 2013Article
- Evolution and biological control.Evolutionary applications · 2012Article
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Abstract
Natural enemies may go through genetic bottlenecks during the process of biological control introductions. Such bottlenecks are expected to be particularly detrimental in parasitoid Hymenoptera that exhibit complementary sex determination (CSD). CSD is associated with a severe form of inbreeding depression because homozygosity at one or multiple sex loci leads to the production of diploid males that are typically unviable or sterile. We observed that diploid males occur at a relatively high rate (8-13% of diploid adults) in a field population of Cotesia rubecula in Minnesota, USA, where this parasitoid was introduced for biological control of the cabbage white Pieris rapae. However, our laboratory crosses suggest two-locus CSD in a native Dutch population of C. rubecula and moderately high diploid males survival (approximately 70%), a scenario expected to produce low proportions of diploid males. We also show that courtship behavior of diploid males is similar to that of haploid males, but females mated to diploid males produce only very few daughters that are triploid. We use our laboratory data to estimate sex allele diversity in the field population of C. rubecula and discuss the possibility of a sex determination meltdown from two-locus CSD to effective single-locus CSD during or after introduction.
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