Correlation between changes in host behaviour and octopamine levels in the tobacco hornworm Manduca sexta parasitized by the gregarious braconid parasitoid wasp Cotesia congregata

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 117-127

  Adamo, Shelley A ^a   Linn, Charles E ^b   Beckage, Nancy E ^c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

activity; feeding inhibition arousal; host regulation; parasite; parasitism

Indexed keywords

COTESIA CONGREGATA; MANDUCA SEXTA;

EID: 0031035772     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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