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ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
卷 172, 期 -, 页码 135-144出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.12.009
关键词
cooperation; Monochamus alternatus; mortality risk; paralysing host; parasitoid wasp; Sclerodermus guani
资金
- National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFD0600204]
- Natural Science Foundation of China [31770690, 32088102]
Risk plays a role in mediating the level of cooperation in parasitoid wasps, with higher mortality risks leading to more cooperation and lower risks leading to more frequent free riding. This study provides an experimental demonstration of risk-driven cooperation in parasitoids.
The role of risk in behavioural choices leading to cooperation in attacking a prey or a host has proven to be difficult to assess in most systems because risk is difficult to quantify. For parasitoid wasps, paralysing a host is a key step for successful parasitism and reproduction, but wasps risk death or injury because of host defences and may require group action, which provides a model system to decipher the mechanism driving cooperation. We explored scenarios where wasps behave as either cooperators or free-riding defectors by using the parasitoid Sclerodermus guani and its host Monochamus alternatus. First, when one or two wasps paralysed a single host, the mortality of both increased with increasing host size but was significantly lower when there were two wasps. Second, fitness analysis showed that whether a wasp was involved in paralysing a host did not affect the number of eggs laid. Finally, when two wasps paralysed single large hosts, higher mortality risks led to more cooperation, whereas lower risk led to more frequent free riding. Our study implies that risk is involved in mediating the level of cooperation and provides an experimental demonstration of risk-driven cooperation of parasitoids. (c) 2020 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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