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Parasitoids themselves may also modify indirect plant-mediated interactions through herbivore-induced plant responses (Kaplan et al. 2016). Parasitoids can mediate quantitative changes in herbivore damage, such as a reduction or an increase of the amount of plant tissue consumed by their host (Harvey 1996; Ode et al. 2016; Cuny and Poelman 2022). Moreover, parasitoids modify qualitative aspects of herbivory, such as the composition of the herbivore saliva (Poelman et al. 2011b; Tan et al. 2018, 2019), altering the way plants perceive the identity of their herbivorous attacker. This may, in turn, affect herbivores feeding on the same plant via indirect plant-mediated interactions (Cusumano and Volkoff 2021; Poelman and Cusumano 2022). For example, plant-phenotypic changes induced by parasitized herbivores increase the performance of unparasitized herbivores and reduce the oviposition preference of adult herbivores compared to plants induced by unparasitized caterpillars (Poelman et al. 2011b; Cusumano et al. 2018, 2021). If two parasitized herbivores feed on the same plant, parasitoid larvae developing in different hosts from the same species can affect each other through indirect plant-mediated interactions. So far, indirect plant-mediated interactions involving interactions between parasitoid larvae have only been demonstrated in one study (Poelman et al. 2011a). More research is needed to have a better understanding of indirect plant-mediated interactions among parasitoid larvae in nature.

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Experimental design to investigate plant-mediated interactions among parasitoid larvae of Cotesia rubecula and Microplitis mediator that develop in two different herbivore species, Pieris rapae and Mamestra brassicae, respectively. Brassica oleracea plants were left unchallenged (no insects) or were induced by unparasitized or parasitized herbivores. In experiment 1, the induced plants were used to identify how caterpillars and parasitoids developing in an herbivore affect performance of new unparasitized caterpillars that feed sequentially on the plant. In experiment 2, the same 5 treatments of induced plants were offered to parasitized herbivores to identify how parasitoids developing in different herbivores affect each other (2a). In addition, we added two treatments: (2b) only three Pieris rapae on the induced plants, to test the effect of herbivore density when compared to the six P. rapae in experiment 2a; (2c) no insect inducing the plant and then parasitized caterpillars from the two systems to investigate simultaneous feeding

Six-week-old B. oleracea plants were individually covered with a net and infested with a first round of herbivory according to one of the following treatments (sixteen plants per treatment): 1) no herbivory, 2) six unparasitized P. rapae, 3) six P. rapae parasitized by C. rubecula, 4) six unparasitized M. brassicae, or 5) six M. brassicae parasitized by M. mediator. Neonate caterpillars of each species were individually parasitized (Poelman et al. 2014) by their corresponding parasitoid one day prior to plant infestation. After nine days when the parasitoid larvae were full grown and nearly all of them had egressed from their caterpillars for pupation, we removed all herbivores from all the plant treatments. The following day, we infested half of the plants from each treatment (eight plants) with ten unparasitized P. rapae, and the other eight plants with ten unparasitized M. brassicae. This second round of herbivory was used to measure host performance. P. rapae were allowed to develop on the plant until pupation, while M. brassicae, which pupate in the soil, were transferred into boxes with one cm of soil when they reached the wandering stage in search of a pupation site. Performance was assessed by i) fresh weight of the pupae, ii) adult emergence time from introduction of the caterpillars onto the plant, and iii) mortality rate, i.e., number of caterpillars not developing into adults relative to the number that were initially introduced. Pupae of both herbivores were stored in plastic tubes at 22 C to measure development time until adult emergence.

In addition to the five treatments described above, fifteen other plants were infested with only three unparasitized P. rapae during the first round of herbivory (instead of 6). After pupation, the caterpillars were removed and the plants received six M. brassicae parasitized by M. mediator. This treatment was used to compare how the amount of herbivory, i.e., three or six P. rapae feeding during the first round of herbivory, affects plant-mediated effects on parasitoids. The performance of parasitoids was measured as described above.

Thirty additional undamaged plants were left without insects during the first round of herbivory and received simultaneously three parasitized P. rapae and three parasitized M. brassicae. This treatment was used to compare how time interval, i.e., simultaneous feeding or sequential feeding by parasitized caterpillars, affects plant-mediated interactions among parasitoids that develop in different host herbivores on the same food plant. The performance of parasitoids was measured as described above.

The lower density of unparasitized P. rapae caterpillars (three) was not statistically different from the higher density (six) and had no significant effect on the development time, mortality, and adult female and male dry weight of M. mediator parasitoids developing in M. brassicae (Fig. 4).

In this study, we deepened understanding of indirect plant-mediated interactions between parasitoid larvae developing in separate hosts. We show that these understudied interactions are not limited to parasitoids whose host range overlap (Poelman et al. 2011a), but may occur between parasitoids associated with different herbivore species. Previous damage by parasitized and unparasitized caterpillars on B. oleracea plants did not affect performance of unparasitized P. rapae and M. brassicae subsequently feeding on the same plant. Contrary to their host, when the subsequent herbivores feeding on the induced plants were parasitized, we found that induction with M. brassicae parasitized by M. mediator affected both parasitoid species positively. Dry weight of C. rubecula was significantly increased when feeding on plants previously induced by M. mediator-parasitized herbivores, compared to undamaged plants. On the other hand, M. mediator parasitoids developed significantly faster when their hosts were feeding on plants induced by conspecific parasitized hosts, with no effect of plant induction by C. rubecula. However, no plant-mediated effects were observed on the performance of parasitoids when parasitized caterpillars fed simultaneously on the same food plant.

Parasitized caterpillars from the two systems had no apparent effect via indirect plant-mediated interactions on subsequent unparasitized caterpillars. These results are not surprising for Pieris rapae, which is a specialist of Brassicaceous species, well adapted to their defensive compounds, such as glucosinolates (Wittstock et al. 2004). However, these results are more surprising for Mamestra brassicae which is considered as a generalist, less adapted to glucosinolates (Gols et al. 2008), although a previous study showed that it may be as well adapted to glucosinolates as Plutella xylostella, a specialist herbivore (Poelman et al. 2008). Although the level of specialization may play a role in our results, it is important to note that we only tested two parasitoid species. Therefore, more research is needed to unravel the specific impact of parasitoid specialization on their plant-mediated effects. In a similar study, Poelman et al. (2011a) also found no effect of previous induction by unparasitized and C. rubecula-parasitized P. rapae on the performance of subsequent unparasitized P. rapae. However, P. rapae developmental time was significantly increased when feeding on plants induced by C. glomerata-parasitized larvae, compared to undamaged plants. In another study (Cusumano et al. 2021), plants induced by parasitized caterpillars increased the performance of unparasitized ones, but the experimental design differs from ours as unparasitized caterpillars were fed with cut leaves induced by mechanical damage and saliva and the relative growth rate of caterpillars was measured after 48 h.

We observed an asymmetrical, facilitating (with a positive effect) indirect plant-mediated interaction between two parasitoid species with different hosts. Plant induction by M. mediator-parasitized herbivores positively affected the dry weight of C. rubecula parasitoids. On the contrary, M. mediator parasitoids were not affected by plants induced by C. rubecula-parasitized herbivores. In a similar study, an asymmetrical sequential indirect plant-mediated interaction was found between Cotesia glomerata and C. rubecula parasitoids developing in P. rapae larvae on B. oleracea plants (Poelman et al. 2011a). Yet, in this case, C. rubecula had an antagonistic effect on the survival of C. glomerata and no effects were found on performance of C. rubecula. The asymmetrical antagonistic indirect plant-mediated interactions between two parasitoid species with overlapping host ranges could be adaptive in order to limit competition for hosts when the parasitoid emerge (Poelman et al. 2011a). Asymmetrical indirect plant-mediated interactions could also be affected by the level of adaptation of the herbivorous host to the food plant. For example, specialists may detoxify toxic compounds, which could reduce any negative effect of plant induction on the parasitoid. We also found a facilitating indirect plant-mediated interaction between conspecific parasitoids. Microplitis mediator significantly reduced the development time of subsequent conspecific parasitoids developing on the same plant. Such facilitation could be the result of an adaptive extended phenotype of the parasitoids that alter plant response via their host (Cusumano et al. 2018; Zhu et al. 2018) in order to increase performance of their host and as a result of this, their own fitness (Tan et al. 2018; Cusumano et al. 2021). Alternatively, parasitoids are under a strong selective pressure to modify their host physiology, which optimizes parasitoid larval development. Therefore, the observed indirect plant-mediated interactions among parasitoid larvae could only be by-products of physiological changes upon parasitism, without evolutionary pressure, resulting in unpredictable outcomes of indirect plant-mediated interactions among parasitized herbivores (Cuny et al. 2022). The fact that plants react differently to parasitized herbivores can be hypothesized to be an adaptive strategy, reducing the resources invested in its defensive response when the herbivore is anyway going to die soon from parasitism (Tan et al. 2020). Alternatively, being attacked by parasitized herbivores may be detrimental, as they may not be able to recognize the identity of the attacker and to respond with the adapted strategy. From an evolutionary point of view, this could be a case where the interests of plants and parasitoids differ, which may result in a more diffuse selection on plant defensive response against herbivores (Cuny and Poelman 2022).

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