Reproductive characteristics of the flower breeding Drosophila hibisci Bock (Drosophilidae) along a latitudinal gradient in eastern Australia: Relation to flower and habitat features

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 459-473

  Starmer, William T ^a   Wolf, Larry L ^a   Barker, J S F ^b   Bowles, Jane M ^c   Lachance, Marc Andre ^c  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Egg number; Egg size; Floral resources; Hibiscus; Latitudinal cline; Life history traits; Ovarioles

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; EGG SIZE; FLOWER SIZE; OVARIOLE; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY;

(EAST); AUSTRALIA;

DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA HIBISCI; DROSOPHILIDAE; HIBISCUS; MALVACEAE;

EID: 0031472786     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1997.0161     Document Type: Article

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