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dc.contributor.authorKapranas, Apostolos
dc.contributor.authorHardy, Ian C.W.
dc.contributor.authorTang, Xiuyun
dc.contributor.authorGardner, Andy
dc.contributor.authorLi, Baoping
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-28T23:33:00Z
dc.date.available2017-04-28T23:33:00Z
dc.date.issued2016-05
dc.identifier.citationKapranas , A , Hardy , I C W , Tang , X , Gardner , A & Li , B 2016 , ' Sex ratios, virginity and local resource enhancement in a quasisocial parasitoid ' , Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata , vol. 159 , no. 2 , pp. 243-251 . https://doi.org/10.1111/eea.12418en
dc.identifier.issn0013-8703
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 214291183
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 4dc6bf2b-c915-43d6-8439-30c06f4e947f
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 84964465791
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000375076200014
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/10687
dc.descriptionThis study was supported by the Special Foundation for Agro-Scientific Research in the Public Interest (201103002) and the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC-36871670). A.K. was supported by a Marie Curie Fellowship (FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF 273431). A.G. was funded by a Natural Environment Research Council (UK) Independent Research Fellowship (NE/K009524/1).en
dc.description.abstractSclerodermus harmandi is an economically beneficial species of parasitoid wasp that also has an unusual level of sociality: groups of female foundresses reproduce on a single host and exhibit cooperative post-ovipositional brood care. The beneficial effects females have on each other’s reproductive success provides, via the theory of local resource enhancement (LRE), an explanation for their female biased progeny sex ratios which is part of the same framework for understanding sex ratio evolution as the more often invoked theory of local mate competition (LMC). Here we show that S. harmandi sex ratios are over-dispersed, with high variance largely attributable to the common occurrence (60%) of developmental mortality. Developmental mortality is also positively associated with the proportion of broods which contain only females at emergence (virgin broods). Virginity is also more common when broods are produced by smaller numbers of foundresses. Virginity is expected to be disadvantageous under LRE, as it is under LMC, but theory for LRE is less extensively developed. We suggest approaches for the development of LRE theory, in particular using models of “population elasticity” in which the intensity of kin competition is reduced because extra resources are available to local populations that are more cooperative. For S. harmandi, such extra resources may include large hosts that can only be successfully utilized when multiple foundresses cooperate.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofEntomologia Experimentalis et Applicataen
dc.rights© 2016, The Netherlands Entomological Society. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at onlinelibrary.wiley.com / https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eea.12418en
dc.subjectSclerodermus harmandien
dc.subjectBethylidaeen
dc.subjectLREen
dc.subjectLMCen
dc.subjectDevelopmental mortalityen
dc.subjectAll-female broodsen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.titleSex ratios, virginity and local resource enhancement in a quasisocial parasitoiden
dc.typeJournal itemen
dc.contributor.sponsorNERCen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversityen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/eea.12418
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2017-04-28
dc.identifier.grantnumberNE/K009524/1en


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