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Sensory Arsenal on the Stinger of the Parasitoid Jewel Wasp and Its Possible Role in Identifying Cockroach Brains

The parasitoid jewel wasp uses cockroaches as live food supply for its developing larva. To this end, the adult wasp stings a cockroach and injects venom directly inside its brain, turning the prey into a submissive ‘zombie’. Here, we characterize the sensory arsenal on the wasp’s stinger that enabl...

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Hauptverfasser: Gal, Ram, Kaiser, Maayan, Haspel, Gal, Libersat, Frederic
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Public Library of Science 2014
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3935893/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24586962
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0089683
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