In a classic tale of symbiosis, researchers have determined that a parasitic wasp got its most potent weapon from an ancient virus that may have attacked it around 100 million years ago. When a ...
This is the seventh of eight posts on evolutionary research to celebrate Darwin’s bicentennial. It combines many of my favourite topics – symbiosis, horizontal gene transfer, parasitic wasps and ...
CHARLES DARWIN said parasitoid wasps made him stop believing in a beneficent God, perhaps because the wasps’ larvae devour their hosts alive from the inside out. But these wasps have another survival ...