A New Threat to Honey Bees, the Parasitic Phorid Fly Apocephalus borealis

Andrew Core; Charles Runckel; Jonathan Ivers; Christopher Quock; Travis Siapno; Seraphina DeNault; Brian Brown; Joseph DeRisi; Christopher D. Smith; John Hafernik

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029639

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A New Threat to Honey Bees, the Parasitic Phorid Fly Apocephalus borealis

Andrew Core,

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Charles Runckel,

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Jonathan Ivers,

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Christopher Quock,

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Travis Siapno,

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Seraphina DeNault,

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Brian Brown,

Affiliation Entomology Section, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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Joseph DeRisi,

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Christopher D. Smith,

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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John Hafernik

* E-mail: acore13@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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A New Threat to Honey Bees, the Parasitic Phorid Fly Apocephalus borealis

Andrew Core,
Charles Runckel,
Jonathan Ivers,
Christopher Quock,
Travis Siapno,
Seraphina DeNault,
Brian Brown,
Joseph DeRisi,
Christopher D. Smith,
John Hafernik

Published: January 3, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029639

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Parasitic or Parasitoid?

Posted by ueyfd on 17 Feb 2012 at 03:03 GMT

I teach my students that this relationship is parasitoid. Your response, please?

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RE: Parasitic or Parasitoid?

tairavis replied to ueyfd on 03 Sep 2012 at 03:17 GMT

You are correct - the relationship is parasitoidic. We use the word "parasite" as a catch-all for parasitic and parasitoidic relationships for ease of reading, but the paper does contain instances where "parasitoid" would be a more accurate description.

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RE: RE: Parasitic or Parasitoid?

tairavis replied to tairavis on 03 Sep 2012 at 03:21 GMT

Forgot to mention I'm a co-author in previous post.

Competing interests declared: Co-author on paper

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Parasitic or Parasitoid?

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