Individual variation and prior experience affect the discrimination of a brood-parasite by its subsocial beetle host

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 155-163

  Rasa, O Anne E ^a,c   Heg, Dik ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c NONE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Host experience; Host parasite interaction; Parasite discrimination; Reproductive success; Tenebrionidae

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; BEETLE; BROOD PARASITISM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; LEARNING;

AVES; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; TENEBRIONIDAE;

EID: 11244309103     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-004-0839-9     Document Type: Article

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