Different male morphs of Otitesella pseudoserrata fig wasps have equal fitness but are not determined by different alleles

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 286-289

  Pienaar, Jason ^a   Greeff, Jaco M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Alternative mating tactics; Conditional strategies; Equal fitness; Fig wasps

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; DIMORPHISM; POLYMORPHISM; SELECTION; WASP;

AGAONIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; OTITESELLA; OTITESELLA PSEUDOSERRATA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0037396926     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00441.x     Document Type: Article

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