Eur. J. Entomol. 110 (1): 103-107, 2013 | DOI: 10.14411/eje.2013.014

Occurrence of arrhenotoky and thelytoky in a parasitic wasp Venturia canescens (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae): Effect of endosymbionts or existence of two distinct reproductive modes?

Vincent FORAY1,2, Hélène HENRI1, Sonia MARTINEZ1, Patricia GIBERT1, Emmanuel DESOUHANT1
1 Université Lyon 1, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, F-69000 Lyon & CNRS, UMR5558, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
2 Earth and Life Institute, Biodiversity Research Centre, Catholic University of Louvain, Croix du Sud 4-5, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; e-mail: vincent.foray@uclouvain.be

Endosymbiotic organisms are known to manipulate the reproductive biology of their hosts. Incomplete prevalence of endosymbiont inducing thelytokous parthenogenesis results in the coexistence of sexual and asexual individuals, and could account for the maintenance of sexual reproduction in certain populations or species. In the parasitoid Venturia canescens, arrhenotokous ("sexual") and thelytokous ("asexual") individuals occur sympatrically. We aimed to determine whether endosymbionts are implicated in the thelytoky of V. canescens. After screening females of the two reproductive modes for several reproductive parasites: bacteria (Wolbachia, Rickettsia, Bacteroidetes, Spiroplasma, Arsenophonus) and Microsporidia, we concluded that thelytoky in V. canescens is not induced by any of these parasites and confirmed its suitability as a biological model for solving the evolutionary enigma of the maintenance of sexual reproduction.

Keywords: Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Venturia canescens, reproductive parasite, thelytokous parthenogenesis, sex evolution

Received: September 14, 2011; Revised: June 28, 2012; Accepted: June 28, 2012; Published: January 2, 2013  Show citation

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FORAY, V., Hélène, H., MARTINEZ, S., GIBERT, P., & DESOUHANT, E. (2013). Occurrence of arrhenotoky and thelytoky in a parasitic wasp Venturia canescens (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae): Effect of endosymbionts or existence of two distinct reproductive modes? EJE, 110(1), 103-107. doi: 10.14411/eje.2013.014
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