Variation in butterfly egg adhesion: Adaptation to local host plant senescence characteristics?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 23-27

  Fordyce, James A ^a   Nice, Chris C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Texas State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Alpine; Egg adhesion; Host plant senescence; L. idas; Lycaeides melissa; Lycaenidae; Oviposition; Variation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADHESION; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; EGG; OVIPOSITION; SENESCENCE;

IDAS; LYCAEIDES; LYCAEIDES IDAS; LYCAEIDES MELISSA; LYCAENIDAE; MELISSA; MELISSA OFFICINALIS; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 0037262693     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00389.x     Document Type: Article

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