Co-occurrence of thelytokous and bisexual Trichogramma dendrolimi Matsumura (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) in a natural population

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 17480 - 14
• Main Authors: Liu, Quan-quan, Zhou, Jin-cheng, Zhang, Chen, Ning, Su-fang, Duan, Li-jia, Dong, Hui
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 25.11.2019; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 38/22; 38/23; 38/77; 631/326; 631/443; Animals; Behavior, Animal; Biological control; Bisexuality; DNA, Bacterial - genetics; DNA, Intergenic - genetics; Electron Transport Complex IV - genetics; Female; Genetic Introgression; Humanities and Social Sciences; Insect Proteins - genetics; Male; multidisciplinary; Natural populations; Parasitism; Phylogenetics; Phylogeny; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Sex ratio; Trichogramma; Wasps - classification; Wasps - microbiology; Wasps - physiology; Wolbachia; Wolbachia - genetics; China
• ISSN: 2045-2322; 2045-2322
• DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-53992-8

Trichogramma dendrolimi is one of the most successful biocontrol agents in China. However, an inundative condition is necessary to obtain acceptable parasitism effect. A good solution to this is the application of its thelytokous counterparts which unfortunately are scarce in field. We here report t...