A trade-off between diapause duration and fitness in female parasitoids

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 279-284

  Ellers, Jacintha ^a,c   Van Alphen, Jacques J M ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Asobara tabida; Body size; Fat reserves; Overwintering; Parasitoid; Reproductive allocation; Survival

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; DIAPAUSE; FITNESS; OVERWINTERING; PARASITOID; SURVIVAL; TRADE-OFF;

ASOBARA; ASOBARA TABIDA; BRACONIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA;

EID: 0036098418     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.2002.00421.x     Document Type: Article

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