Mating system and sex allocation in the gregarious parasitoid Cotesia glomerata

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 259-264

  Gu, Hainan ^a   Dorn, Silvia ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MATING BEHAVIOR; NATAL DISPERSAL; PARASITOID; SEX ALLOCATION;

BRACONIDAE; COTESIA GLOMERATA; HYMENOPTERA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0042069970     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2185     Document Type: Article

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