Sex ratio in relation to season and host plant quality in a monogenous stem-galling midge (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae)

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 677-684

  Dorchin, Netta ^a,b   Freidberg, Amnon ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Fitness; Gall midges; Monogeny; Plant vigour; Population ecology; Seasonality; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

GALL INSECT; HOST QUALITY; POPULATION ECOLOGY; SEASON; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO;

ANIMALIA; CECIDOMYIIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; DIPTERA; IZENIOLA OBESULA; SUAEDA; SUAEDA MONOICA;

EID: 10344220009     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0307-6946.2004.00637.x     Document Type: Article

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