A fitness cost of eugregarine parasitism in a damselfly

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 465-470

  Siva Jothy, Michael T ^b   Plaistow, Stewart J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMSELFLY; FITNESS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION;

CALOPTERYGIDAE; CALOPTERYX SPLENDENS; EUGREGARINIDA; ODONATA;

EID: 0032720630     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.1999.00222.x     Document Type: Article

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