Potential benefits of male diploidy and female triploidy for parasitoid wasps used as biological control agents: A case study in Nasonia

Parasitoid wasps are haplodiploid insects, but polyploidy (diploid males, triploid females) occurs for many species. In biological control, polyploidy may have beneficial effects on desirable biological related traits. However, this is only possible in species for which polyploidy does not impair es...

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Main Author: Kelley Leung
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-12-01
Series:Biological Control
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S104996442400224X
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