More Highly Female-Biased Sex Ratio in the Fig Wasp, Blastophaga nipponica Grandi (Agaonidae)

Researches on Population Ecology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 239-242

  Kinoshita, Motoaki ^a   Kasuya, Eiiti ^a   Yahara, Tetsukazu ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fig wasp; Local mate competition; Quantitative prediction; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001221029     PISSN: 00345466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02763409     Document Type: Article

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