Sex ratio and oviposition responses to host age and the fitness consequences to mother and offspring in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia endius

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 316-320

  King, B H ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development time; Host age; Offspring fitness; Parasitoid wasp; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

AGE; FITNESS; OVIPOSITION; PARASITOID; SEX RATIO; WASP;

HYMENOPTERA; SPALANGIA ENDIUS; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0033832857     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650000238     Document Type: Article

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