Publications by authors named "Luis Alberto Calcaterra"
Antagonistic interactions can affect population growth and dispersal of an invasive species. are intracellular endosymbiont bacteria that infect arthropod and nematode hosts and are able to manipulate reproduction, which in some cases leads to cocladogenesis. Moreover, the presence of the strictly maternally transferred in a population can indirectly induce selective sweeps on the hosts' mitochondria.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCorrection: A Species delimitation approach to uncover cryptic species in the South American fire ant decapitating flies (Diptera: Phoridae: Pseudacteon).
PLoS One
November 2020
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The little fire ant Wasmannia auropunctata, native to the Neotropics, has become a serious pest worldwide over the past 100 years. It was originally distributed from Mexico to northern Argentina and new evidence suggests a recent southern range expansion during the last 60 years reaching central Argentina. This supercolonial ant species has a polymorphic reproductive system.
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