Mortality during dispersal and the cost of host specificity in parasites: How many aphids find hosts?

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 763-773

  Ward, S A ^a   Leather, S R ^b   Pickup, J ^c   Harrington, R ^d  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Dept Agric and Fish for Scotland ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Host alternation; Migration; Overwintering; Rhopalosiphum padi, sympatric speciation

Indexed keywords

APHID; DISPERSAL; EVOLUTION; HOST SPECIFICITY; MORTALITY; PARASITE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

APHIDIDAE; HOMOPTERA; RHOPALOSIPHAUM PADI; RHOPALOSIPHUM PADI;

EID: 0031717245     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.1998.00238.x     Document Type: Article

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