{"id":1688,"date":"2014-05-24T16:54:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T21:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2014-11-14T23:38:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T04:38:23","slug":"temperature-influences-gender-of-parasitic-wasp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/temperature-influences-gender-of-parasitic-wasp\/","title":{"rendered":"Temperature influences gender of parasitic wasp<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1664\" style=\"width: 313px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/4831-parasitoide-trichogramme.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1664\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1664\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/4831-parasitoide-trichogramme.jpg\" alt=\"Sex allocation of parasitic wasps, such as Trichogramma euproctidis, is influenced by temperature. (Photo credit: University of Montr\u00e9al)\" width=\"303\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/4831-parasitoide-trichogramme.jpg 303w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/4831-parasitoide-trichogramme-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sex allocation of parasitic wasps, such as Trichogramma euproctidis, is influenced by temperature. (Photo credit: University of Montr\u00e9al)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Extreme climatic events could influence the sex ratio of a parasite that controls pests such as the European corn borer, a new study shows. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The parasitic wasp <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">Trichogramma euproctidis<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> lays its eggs inside the eggs of moths, preventing the moth egg from hatching into a caterpillar. The study showed that fewer females were born at low (14\u00b0C) and high (34\u00b0C) temperature, than at medium temperature (24\u00b0C). Since females live longer and can lay eggs without being fertilized, extreme temperatures could impact negatively the parasite population which would in turn facilitate European corn borer spread.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0003347214001067\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the the journal\u00a0<em>Animal Behaviour<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>May 21, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irbv.umontreal.ca\/personnel\/postdoctoraux\" target=\"_blank\">Joffrey Moiroux<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, University of Montr\u00e9al, Quebec<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme climatic events could influence the sex ratio of a parasite that controls pests such as the European corn borer, a new study shows. The parasitic wasp Trichogramma euproctidis lays its eggs inside the eggs of moths, preventing the moth egg from hatching into a caterpillar. The study showed that fewer females were born at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,174,113,215,917,849],"class_list":["post-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-animals","tag-biology","tag-environment","tag-evolution","tag-quebec-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/4831-parasitoide-trichogramme.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-re","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1690,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions\/1690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}