Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata (2001) 99, 225-230

P.J. De Barro and P.J. Hart (2001)
Antibiotic curing of parthenogenesis in Eretmocerus mundus (Australian parthenogenic form)
Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 99 (2), 225-230
Abstract: The thelytokous parasitoid, Eretmocerus mundus (Australian parthenogenetic form) was infected with a species of Group B Wolbachia. Antibiotic treatment of the parasitoid cured parthenogenesis and lead to male production and reduced egg hatching by virgin females. For each generation infected females produced more progeny than cured females. The descendants of individuals treated with antibiotic were in most cases free of a detectable infection. Both treated females and descendant females mated and received sperm, but these were not used as mated and unmated cured females produced offspring with a similar sex ratio. Males produced as a result of the antibiotic treatment were at least partially functional as they produced sperm and copulated with and inseminated females. However, no sexual line could be established.
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Database assignments for author(s): Paul J. De Barro

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
biocontrol - natural enemies
Research topic(s) for beneficials or antagonists:
general biology - morphology - evolution

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Bemisia tabaci
Eretmocerus mundus (parasitoid)	Bemisia tabaci