Effects of larval host plant and sex on the propensity to enter diapause in the comma butterfly

Oikos

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 569-575

  Wedell, Nina ^a   Nylin, Sören ^a   Janz, Niklas ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMA BUTTERFLY; DIAPAUSE; DOWNY BIRCH; HOST PLANT; STINGING NETTLE;

BETULA PUBESCENS; BETULACEAE; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE; POLYGONIA C-ALBUM; URTICA DIOICA; URTICACEAE;

EID: 0030617856     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3545619     Document Type: Article

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