Behavioural plasticity in support of a benefit for aggregation pheromone use in Drosophila melanogaster

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 61-71

  Wertheim, Bregje ^a,b   Dicke, Marcel ^a,b   Vet, Louise E M ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregation pheromone; Benefit; Drosophila melanogaster; Micro organisms; Oviposition behaviour; Plasticity; Resource exploitation

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION PHEROMONE; FLY; OVIPOSITION; PLASTICITY;

DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0036381020     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.2002.00954.x     Document Type: Article

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