A causal ethological analysis of the courtship behaviour of an insect (the parasitic wasp Nasonia vitripennis, HYM., pteromalidae)

Behaviour

Volumn 133, Issue 13-14, 1996, Pages 1051-1075

  Jachmann, F ^a   Van Den Assem, J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP; ETHOLOGY; PARASITIC WASP;

HYMENOPTERA; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS; PTEROMALIDAE;

EID: 0030437990     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853996x00594     Document Type: Article

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