Cost of strepsipteran macroparasitism for immature wasps: Does sociality modulate virulence?

Oikos

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 428-434

  Hughes, D P ^a,b   Kathirithamby, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORTALITY; PARASITISM; VIRULENCE; WASP;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA; POLISTES; STREPSIPTERA;

EID: 24744436845     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2005.13791.x     Document Type: Article

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