Hopkins' 'host selection principle', another nail in its coffin

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 325-328

  Van Emden, H F ^a   Sponagl, Barbara ^a,b   Wagner, Evelyn ^a,b   Baker, T ^a   Ganguly, S ^a   Douloumpaka, Sofia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aphid parasitoids; Aphidius rhopalosiphi; host plant odours; host selection; Metopolophium dirhodum; wheat volatiles

Indexed keywords

HOST ODOUR; HOST SELECTION; PARASITOID;

APHIDIIDAE; APHIDIUS RHOPALOSIPHI; HOMOPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; METOPOLOPHIUM DIRHODUM; POACEAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0030301556     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.1996.tb00873.x     Document Type: Article

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