Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2019 Apr 15;9:6081. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-42503-4

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© The Author(s) 2019

Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

PMC Copyright notice

The number of wasps developing in one host egg, their adult body size and future fertility are influenced by the host population density of the host. Each female has 34 offspring, but the size of their offspring depends on the number of individuals developed in one host²⁸. Wasps lay a higher number of eggs into one host egg and therefore produce smaller offspring if the population density of hosts is “low” compared “medium” and “high” population densities of hosts. The body size of the F1 generation female wasps determines the number of developed offspring. The number of offspring per host egg is illustrative because it does not reflect the real number of developed offspring.