Effects of host age on parasitism and progeny allocation in Trichogrammatidae

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 149-160

  Godin, Claude ^a,b   Boivin, Guy ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Egg parasitoids; Host age; Host quality; Optimal foraging; Pieris rapae; Plutella xylostella; Progeny allocation; Sex ratio; Trichogramma; Trichogrammatoidea; Trichoplusia ni

Indexed keywords

AGE; EGG PARASITOID; HOST SELECTION; PARASITISM;

HYMENOPTERA; PIERIS RAPAE; PLUTELLA XYLOSTELLA; TRICHOGRAMMATIDAE; TRICHOPLUSIA NI;

EID: 0033788011     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.2000.00725.x     Document Type: Article

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