Food quantity affects traits of offspring in the paper wasp Polistes metricus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 99-106

  Karsai, István ^a,b   Hunt, James H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caste; Nutrition; Parental manipulation; Phenotypic plasticity; Polistes metricus; Social wasp

Indexed keywords

CASTE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; NUTRITION;

HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; POLISTES; POLISTES FUSCATUS PALLIPES; POLISTES METRICUS; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0036488338     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-31.1.99     Document Type: Article

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