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ArticleInsects2020

Low Host Specialization in the Cuckoo Wasp,

Carlo Polidori, Yolanda Ballesteros, Mareike Wurdack, Josep Daniel Asís, José Tormos, Laura Baños-Picón, Thomas Schmitt

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Article in Insects, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Carlo PolidoriInstitute of Environmental Sciences (ICAM), University of Castilla La Mancha. Avda, Carlos III s/n, 45071 Toledo, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-4834-0752
Yolanda BallesterosZoology Unit, Faculty of Biology, University of Salamanca, 37071 Salamanca, Spain.
Mareike WurdackDepartment of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0828-8590
Josep Daniel AsísZoology Unit, Faculty of Biology, University of Salamanca, 37071 Salamanca, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-8134-1875
José TormosZoology Unit, Faculty of Biology, University of Salamanca, 37071 Salamanca, Spain.
Laura Baños-PicónZoology Unit, Faculty of Biology, University of Salamanca, 37071 Salamanca, Spain.
Thomas SchmittDepartment of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6719-8635
Universidad de Salamanca · ESUniversity of Würzburg · DEUniversity of Castilla-La Mancha · ES

Funding

Consejería de Educación, Junta de Castilla y León SA094A09 and SA010A06Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación CGL2010-16730Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación CGL2017- 83046-PUniversidad de Castilla-La Mancha Post-doctoral (SECTI) contractUniversidad de Salamanca Pre-doctoral fellowship
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Insect brood parasites have evolved a variety of strategies to avoid being detected by their hosts. Few previous studies on cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), which are natural enemies of solitary wasps and bees, have shown that chemical mimicry, i.e., the biosynthesis of cuticular hydrocarbons (CHC) that match the host profile, evolved in several species. However, mimicry was not detected in all investigated host-parasite pairs. The effect of host range as a second factor that may play a role in evolution of mimicry has been neglected, since all previous studies were carried out on host specialists and at nesting sites where only one host species occurred. Here we studied the cuckoo wasp

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Bembixchemical mimicryChrysididaecuticular hydrocarbons

Identifiers

PMID32093328
PMCPMC7073532
OpenAlexW3008331142

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