When to leave the brood chamber? Routes of dispersal in mites associated with burying beetles

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 621-631

  Schwarz, Horst H ^a   Koulianos, Stella ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Host choice; Nicrophorus; Peocilochirus carabi; Phoresy; Silphidae

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031735142     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006054604520     Document Type: Review

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