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| Title |
Placenta-Like Structure of the Aphid Endoparasitic Wasp Aphidius ervi: A Strategy of Optimal Resources Acquisition
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, April 2011
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0018847 |
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| Authors |
Ahmed Sabri, Thierry Hance, Pascal D. Leroy, Isabelle Frère, Eric Haubruge, Jacqueline Destain, Philippe Compère, Philippe Thonart |
| Abstract |
Aphidius ervi (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) is an entomophagous parasitoid known to be an effective parasitoid of several aphid species of economic importance. A reduction of its production cost during mass rearing for inundative release is needed to improve its use in biological control of pests. In these contexts, a careful analysis of its entire development phases within its host is needed. This paper shows that this parasitoid has some characteristics in its embryological development rather complex and different from most other reported insects, which can be phylogenetically very close. First, its yolkless egg allows a high fecundity of the female but force them to hatch from the egg shell rapidly to the host hemocoel. An early cellularisation allowing a rapid differentiation of a serosa membrane seems to confirm this hypothesis. The serosa wraps the developing embryo until the first instar larva stage and invades the host tissues by microvilli projections and form a placenta like structure able to divert host resources and allowing nutrition and respiration of embryo. Such interspecific invasion, at the cellular level, recalls mammal's trophoblasts that anchors maternal uterine wall and underlines the high adaptation of A. ervi to develop in the host body. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 1 | 3% |
| Brazil | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 38 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 10 | 25% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 10% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 3 | 8% |
| Other | 5 | 13% |
| Unknown | 5 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 27 | 68% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 13% |
| Environmental Science | 1 | 3% |
| Social Sciences | 1 | 3% |
| Chemistry | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 5 | 13% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 February 2012.
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#3,251,664
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#42,728
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#15,318
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#344
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