Costs and benefits of fighting infection in locusts

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 109-131

  Gardner, Shea N ^a   Thomas, Matthew B ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beauveria bassiana; Behavioural fever; Biocontrol; Dynamic state variable model; Entomopathogenic fungi; Locusts and grasshoppers; Metarhizium anisopliae var. acridum; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013088080     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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