Body size - Realized fecundity relationship of whitemarked tussock moth

Canadian Entomologist

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 583-586

  Thurston, Graham S ^a   MacGregor, James D ^b  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; FECUNDITY; MOTH;

HEMEROCAMPA LEUCOSTIGMA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYMANTRIIDAE;

EID: 0346669975     PISSN: 0008347X     EISSN: 19183240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4039/n02-104     Document Type: Article

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