Family planning in a stemborer parasitoid: Sex ratio, brood size and size-fitness relationships in Parallorhogas pyralophagus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), and implications for biological control

Bulletin of Entomological Research

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 255-264

  Bernal, J S ^a   Gillogly, P O ^a   Griset, J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; BROOD SIZE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HOST; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; OUTBREEDING; PARASITISM; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO;

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BROOD SIZE; PARASITOID; SEX ALLOCATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; INSEMINATION; LONGEVITY; MALE; OVUM; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; WASPS;

BRACONIDAE; EOREUMA LOFTINI; HYMENOPTERA; PARALLORHOGAS; PARALLORHOGAS PYRALOPHAGUS;

EID: 0034878477     PISSN: 00074853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/BER200199     Document Type: Article

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