Fitness in invasive social wasps: the role of variation in viral load, immune response and paternity in predicting nest size and reproductive output
March 2017
Publication: Oikos
Author(s): Dobelmann, J., Loope, K. J., Wilson-Rankin, E., Quinn, O., Baty, J. W., Gruber, M. A. M. and Lester, P. J.
Here we investigate how infections with Kashmir Bee Virus (KBV), immune response and intracolony genetic diversity (due to queen polyandry) affect nest size in the invasive common wasp Vespula vulgaris.