Fitness-related attributes and gregarine burden in a non-territorial damselfly Enallagma praevarum hagen (Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae)

Odonatologica

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 123-130

  Canales Lazcano, J ^a   Contreras Garduno J ^b   Cordoba Aguilar A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE HIDALGO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMSELFLY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITE RESISTANCE;

ANIMALIA; COENAGRIONIDAE; ENALLAGMA PRAEVARUM; GREGARINIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 19844368057     PISSN: 03750183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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