Body size, host choice and sex allocation in a spider-hunting pompilid wasp

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 285-296

  Karsai, István ^a   Somogyi, Kálmán ^b,d   Hardy, Ian C W ^c  

^a EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anoplius; Field data; Host size; Sex ratio; Size fitness relationship

Indexed keywords

FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOST SELECTION; PARASITOID; SEX RATIO;

ANOPLIUS; ARANEAE; POMPILIDAE;

EID: 33644979888     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00576.x     Document Type: Article

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