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Host propagation permits extreme local adaptation in a social parasite of ants.

Ecology letters - 1 Sept 2006

Schönrogge K, Gardner M G, Elmes G W, Napper E K V, Simcox D J, Wardlaw J C, Breen J, Barr B, Knapp J J, Pickett J A, Thomas J A

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The Red Data Book hoverfly species Microdon mutabilis is an extreme specialist that parasitises ant societies. The flies are locally adapted to a single host, Formica lemani, more intimately than was thought possible in host-parasite systems. Microdon egg survival plummeted in F. lemani colonies...

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PMID: 16925652
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00957.x

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