Sex allocation and clutch size in parasitoid wasps that produce single-sex broods

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 265-275

  West, S A ^a,b   Flanagan, K E ^a   Godfray, H C J ^a  

^a NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEX DETERMINATION;

ACHRYSOCHAROIDES;

EID: 0033083174     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0958     Document Type: Article

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