Factors affecting female-biased sex ratio in a trap-nesting wasp, Trypoxylon malaisei

Researches on Population Ecology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 169-175

  Oku, Shintarou ^a   Nishida, Takayoshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Constrained female; Local mate competition; Partial bivoltinism; Resource quality; Trypoxylon malaisei

Indexed keywords

TRYPOXYLON; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0040118427     PISSN: 00345466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s101440050019     Document Type: Article

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