Reproduction now or later: Optimal host-handling strategies in the whitefly parasitoid Encarsia formosa

Oikos

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 117-130

  Burger, Joep M S ^a,b   Hemerik, Lia ^a   Van Lenteren, Joop C ^a   Vet, Louise E M ^a,c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Life Sciences Building ^*  (United States)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; EGG PRODUCTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ALEYRODIDAE; APHELINIDAE; ENCARSIA; ENCARSIA FORMOSA; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 3042632100     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.12908.x     Document Type: Article

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