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Parasitoid Host Specificity

Parasitoid Host Specificity is a parasitological concept that refers to the degree to which a parasitoid species targets a limited subset of host species during its developmental lifecycle, distinguishing it from generalist parasitoids by its restricted host range and specialized host-recognition mechanisms.

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Host Selection by Insect Parasitoids

S. B. Vinson · Annual Review of Entomology · 1976 · 1.1K citations

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Host Suitability for Insect Parasitoids

S. Bradleigh Vinson, Gerard F. Iwantsch · Annual Review of Entomology · 1980 · 607 citations

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Extreme diversity of tropical parasitoid wasps exposed by iterative integration of natural history, DNA barcoding, morphology, and collections

M. Alex Smith, Josephine Rodriguez, James B. Whitfield et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2008 · 601 citations · Full text

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Host specificity of Lepidoptera in tropical and temperate forests

Lee A. Dyer, Michael S. Singer, John T. Lill et al. · Nature · 2007 · 503 citations · Full text

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The General Host Selection Behavior of Parasitoid Hymenoptera and a Comparison of Initial Strategies Utilized by Larvaphagous and Oophagous Species

S. Bradleigh Vinson · Biological Control · 1998 · 446 citations

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    S. Bradleigh Vinson

    Texas A&M University, United States

    11 publications · 1.4K citations

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  2. SD
    Sanford D. Porter

    Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, United States

    9 publications · 526 citations

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  3. KA
    Kim A. Hoelmer

    Beneficial Designs (United States), United States

    7 publications · 606 citations

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  4. KR
    Keith R. Hopper

    Beneficial Designs (United States), United States

    6 publications · 308 citations

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  5. RS
    R. Sobhian

    Agropolis International, France

    6 publications · 75 citations

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  1. Agricultural Research Service

    Washington, United States

    20 h-index

    70 publications

    3.7K citations

  2. CABI Switzerland

    Delémont, Switzerland

    18 h-index

    48 publications

    2.2K citations

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    16 h-index

    71 publications

    3.5K citations

  4. Texas A&M University

    College Station, United States

    15 h-index

    24 publications

    1.2K citations

  5. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

    Ottawa, Canada

    13 h-index

    27 publications

    1.2K citations

  6. United States Department of Agriculture

    Washington, United States

    13 h-index

    25 publications

    968 citations

  7. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    12 h-index

    27 publications

    1.2K citations

  8. Institute of Entomology

    České Budějovice, Czechia

    11 h-index

    13 publications

    491 citations

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  1. Biological Control

    45 publications · 2.2K citations

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  2. BioControl

    44 publications · 1K citations

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  3. Journal of Parasitology

    25 publications · 812 citations

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  4. Parasitology

    25 publications · 936 citations

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  5. Environmental Entomology

    29 publications · 903 citations

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