Should models of disease dynamics in herbivorous insects include the effects of variability in host-plant foliage quality?

American Naturalist

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 16-31

  Dwyer, Greg ^a   Firestone, Jeffrey ^b   Stevens, T Emiko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Akaike Information Criterion; Host pathogen; Lymantria dispar; Model selection; Nucleopolyhedrovirus; Tritrophic

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MODELING; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION; VIRAL DISEASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACULOVIRUS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; MOTH; OAK; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; BACULOVIRIDAE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LARVA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTHS; PLANT LEAVES; QUERCUS;

CYPOVIRUS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYMANTRIA; LYMANTRIA DISPAR; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ALBA; QUERCUS RUBRA; UNIDENTIFIED BACULOVIRUS;

EID: 13444278782     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/426603     Document Type: Article

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