Asymmetry in reproduction strategies drives evolution of resistance in biological control systems

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 13; no. 12; p. e0207610
• Main Authors: Casanovas, Paula, Goldson, Stephen L., Tylianakis, Jason M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 19.12.2018; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Animal behavior; Animals; Asymmetry; Biological control; Biological evolution; Biology and Life Sciences; Chemical attack; Chemical control; Coevolution; Control systems; Dynamic models; Ecology and Environmental Sciences; Ecosystems; Emergence; Evolution; Evolution (Biology); Evolution, Molecular; Genetic diversity; Genetic variance; Genetic Variation; Host-Parasite Interactions; Importation; Laws, regulations and rules; Life history; Medicine and Health Sciences; Models, Biological; Organic chemistry; Parasitism; Pest Control, Biological; Pesticides; Pests; Physiological regulation; Population; Predictive control; Reproduction; Reproduction (biology); Reproduction, Asexual; Weevils - parasitology; Weevils - physiology; New Zealand

The success of biological control may depend on the control agent co-evolving with its target pest species, precluding the emergence of resistance that often undermines chemical control. However, recent evidence of a decline in attack rates of a sexual pest weevil by its asexual parasitoid suggests...