Rate of nutrient allocation to egg production in a parasitic wasp

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1424, 1999, Pages 1169-1174

  Rivero, A ^a,b   Casas, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Egg production; Host feeding; Nutrient allocation; Parasitoids; Radioactive labelling; Reproductive trade offs

Indexed keywords

EGG PRODUCTION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; NUTRIENT USE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG PRODUCTION; FEEDING; FEMALE; ISOTOPE LABELING; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; WASP;

ANIMALIA; INSECTA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0033532727     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0759     Document Type: Article

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