Consequences of communal gall occupation and a test for kin discrimination in the aphid Tamalia coweni (Cockerell) (Homoptera: Aphididae)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 95-103

  Miller III, Donald G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Communal; Gall aphid; Kin discrimination

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; APHID; GALL; KIN RECOGNITION;

APHIDIDAE; HOMOPTERA; TAMALIA COWENI;

EID: 0031878219     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650050471     Document Type: Article

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