Claim · model-written summary
The two parasitoid species had asymmetrical indirect plant-mediated effects on each other performance.
- Taxon
- Brassica oleracea
Brassica oleraceae0
- Interactor
- Microplitis mediator
Microplitis mediatore2parasite - Second interactor
- Cotesia rubecula
Cotesia rubeculae2parasite - Outcome
- each other's performancee5
- Direction
- asymmetricale5
Verbatim
e0“feeding on Brassica oleracea plants”
e2“Mamestra brassicae parasitized by Microplitis mediator and Pieris rapae parasitized by Cotesia rubecula”
e5“In contrast, the two parasitoid species had asymmetrical indirect plant-mediated effects on each other's performance”
Title
Maximilien A. C. Cuny; Romain Pierron; Rieta Gols; et al. Oecologia 2023. doi:10.1007/s00442-023-05465-z
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Plant induction by parasitized or unparasitized hosts had no significant effect on the performance of Mamestra brassicae and Pieris rapae.
- Intervention effect Cotesia rubecula weight was 15% higher on plants induced by M. mediator-parasitized hosts than on control plants.
- Intervention effect M. mediator development time was reduced by 30% on plants induced by conspecific parasitoids compared with plants induced by its unparasitized host.
- Intervention effect M. mediator development time showed no reduction on plants induced by heterospecific parasitoids.
- Intervention effect Parasitoids had no effect on each other performance when feeding simultaneously, unlike sequential feeding.