Sex allocation in Telenomus busseolae, a solitary parasitoid of concealed eggs: The influence of host patch size

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 141-149

  Bayram, Ahmet ^a   Salerno, Gianandrea ^b   Conti, Eric ^b   Wajnberg, Eric ^c   Bin, Ferdinando ^b   Kornoşor, Serpil ^d  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

^d CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Concealed hosts; Egg mass size; Egg parasitoid; Hymenoptera; Lepidoptera; Local Mate Competition; Male first strategy; Noctuidae; Oviposition sequence; Scelionidae; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

EGG PARASITOID; EGG SIZE; OVIPOSITION; PATCH SIZE; SEX ALLOCATION;

HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE; SCELIONIDAE; SESAMIA; SESAMIA NONAGRIOIDES; TELENOMUS;

EID: 2442591751     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-8703.2004.00161.x     Document Type: Article

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