Search Results - "Kloss, Thiago Gechel"
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Fighting in rounds: males of a neotropical cricket switch assessment strategies during contests
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Proximate mechanism of behavioral manipulation of an orb-weaver spider host by a parasitoid wasp
Published in PloS one (03-02-2017)“…Some ichneumonid wasps induce modifications in the web building behavior of their spider hosts to produce resistant "cocoon" webs. These structures hold and…”
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Low Virulence of the Fungi Escovopsis and Escovopsioides to a Leaf-Cutting Ant-Fungus Symbiosis
Published in Frontiers in microbiology (29-07-2021)“…Eusocial insects interact with a diversity of parasites that can threaten their survival and reproduction. The amount of harm these parasites cause to their…”
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Disentangling the Taxonomy, Systematics, and Life History of the Spider-Parasitic Fungus Gibellula (Cordycipitaceae, Hypocreales)
Published in Journal of fungi (Basel) (08-04-2023)“…(Cordycipitaceae, Hypocreales) is frequently observed growing on spiders, but little is known about their host range. One of the greatest challenges in…”
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Nutritional Status Does Not Restrict Foraging Activity and Web Investment in a Shelter-Building Spider Species, But Individuals are More Risk-Prone at Night
Published in Journal of insect behavior (01-06-2024)“…Optimal foraging and individual specialization theories suggest that different properties of the interactions between prey and predators determine foraging…”
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Deluded zombies: induced behavioral modification in a cobweb spider does not increase the survival of its parasitoid wasp
Published in Behavioral ecology and sociobiology (2024)“…Behavioral modifications induced by parasites have been extensively documented across multiple taxa. However, a major challenge is to experimentally determine…”
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Immature stages and natural history of Eruga unilabiana (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), an ectoparasitoid of two linyphiid spiders
Published in Entomological science (01-12-2024)“…Wasps from the Polysphincta genus group (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) are currently the only parasitoid wasps that are ectoparasitoids of spiders…”
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Fungus-insect symbiosis: Diversity and negative ecological role of the hypocrealean fungus Trichoderma harzianum in colonies of neotropical termites (Blattodea: Termitidae)
Published in Fungal ecology (01-06-2022)“…Symbioses between social insects and fungi can drive important processes in both. We show previously unrealised prevalence and diversity of Trichoderma species…”
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A New Darwin Wasp (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) and New Records of Behavioral Manipulation of the Host Spider Leucauge volupis (Araneae: Tetragnathidae)
Published in Neotropical entomology (01-12-2022)“…Some ichneumonid wasps of the Polysphincta group of genera (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) induce behavioral modifications in their host spiders during…”
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Host behavioural manipulation of two orb-weaver spiders by parasitoid wasps
Published in Animal behaviour (01-01-2016)“…Parasitic infection or tissue consumption by parasitoids typically leads to several phenotypic alterations in hosts, including distinct changes in behavioural,…”
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Anatomy and histology of the male reproductive tract of the parasitoid wasp Hymenoepimecis bicolor (Brullé, 1846) (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)
Published in Acta zoologica (Stockholm) (26-03-2024)“…Hymenoepimecis wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) are ectoparasitoids of spiders that modify the hosts’ behaviour by inducing changes in webs. Variations in…”
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Disentangling the Taxonomy, Systematics, and Life History of the Spider-Parasitic Fungus IGibellula/I
Published in Journal of fungi (Basel) (01-04-2023)“…Gibellula (Cordycipitaceae, Hypocreales) is frequently observed growing on spiders, but little is known about their host range. One of the greatest challenges…”
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Attack Behavior of Two Wasp Species of the Polysphincta Genus Group (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) on their Orb-Weaver Spider Hosts (Araneae, Araneidae)
Published in Journal of insect behavior (01-05-2016)“…Species in the Polysphincta genus group, as far as is known, are exclusively koinobiont ectoparasitoids of spiders. These wasps attack their hosts, inflicting…”
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Suppression of orb-web building behavior of the spider Metazygia laticeps (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889) (Araneae: Araneidae) by a new parasitoid wasp
Published in Zoologischer Anzeiger (01-09-2018)“…Parasitoids may change host behavior in order to improve their survival during the pupal stage. This has been observed in some ichneumonid wasps (Polysphincta…”
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