Molecular Delineation of Parasitoid Community Interacting with a Range-expanding Host to Reveal Altered Interactions under Range Expansions
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The effects of changing conditions due to climate change on species interactions are not fully understood. One outcome is that species undergo range expansions, but interactions may become out of sync as species move at different rates. Oak gall wasp species, Neuroterus saltatorius, has undergone a recent poleward range expansion from mainland western North America to Vancouver Island, British Columbia. To uncover if and how interactions with parasitoid wasps were altered under expansions, including if specialist parasitoids failed to track the host species to its expanded range, we sequenced parasitoid wasps reared out of N. saltatorius at sites throughout the native and expanded range. DNA extractions and PCR were performed on different morphospecies to sequence the Universal barcoding gene (CO1). Sequences were blasted to find the closest match in GenBank databases, and confirm families. Phylogenetic trees were constructed for each wasp family, and we used molecular delineation approaches to delineate clades.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".