Does anti-parasitoid defense explain host-plant selection by a polyphagous caterpillar?

Oikos

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 554-562

  Singer, M S ^a   Stireman III, J O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; HOST PLANT; HOST SELECTION; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; SURVIVAL; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION;

ARCTIIDAE; DIPTERA; EXORISTA; EXORISTA MELLA; GRAMMIA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; PHACELIA CONGESTA; TACHINIDAE;

EID: 0013443483     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.11720.x     Document Type: Article

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