Environmentally based maternal effects on development time in the seed beetle Stator pruininus (Coleoptera: Bruchidae): Consequences of larval density

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 217-223

  Fox, Charles W ^a   Czesak, Mary Ellen ^a   Savalli, Udo M ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acacia; Body size; Clutch size; Egg size; Larval density; Stator pruininus

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; DENSITY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FOOD LIMITATION; INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSFER;

ACACIA; BRUCHIDAE; BRUCHINAE; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; STATOR PRUININUS;

EID: 0032936143     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/28.2.217     Document Type: Article

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