Quantitative tests of sex ratio models in a pollinating fig wasp

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 23-32

  Moore, J C ^a,b   Compton, S G ^a   Hatcher, M J ^a   Dunn, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; POLLINATOR; SEX RATIO; WASP;

AGAONIDAE; FICUS (ANGIOSPERM); HYMENOPTERA; LIPORRHOPALUM; LIPORRHOPALUM TENTACULARIS; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0036379316     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2002.3034     Document Type: Article

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