Clutch size in an obligately siblicidal parasitoid wasp

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 841-852

  Rosenheim, Jay A ^a   Hongkham, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; PARAISTOID; SIBLICIDE; WASP;

COMPERIELLA BIFASCIATA; ENCYRTIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0029752271     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0088     Document Type: Article

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