Impacts of fever on locust life-history traits: Costs or benefits?

Biology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 181-184

  Elliot, Sam L ^a,b   Horton, Charlotte M ^a   Blanford, Simon ^a,c   Thomas, Matthew B ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioural fever; Costs of resistance; Entomopathogens; Host pathogen interactions; Locust phase change

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LOCUST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FEVER; LIFE HISTORY; LOCUST; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL;

SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA;

EID: 25444433124     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0279     Document Type: Article

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