Why make daughters larger? Maternal sex-allocation and sex-dependent selection for body size in a mass-provisioning wasp, trypoxylon politum

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 279-287

  Molumby, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Natural selection; Organ pipe wasps; Sex allocation; Sexual dimorphism; Trypoxylon politum

Indexed keywords

TRYPOXYLON POLITUM; HYMENOPTERA; SPHECIDAE;

BODY SIZE; NATURAL SELECTION; ORGAN-PIPE WASP; SEX ALLOCATION; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

USA, MISSISSIPPI;

EID: 0030619857     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/8.3.279     Document Type: Article

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