Does a specialist parasitoid adapt to its host on a new host plant?

Journal of Insect Behavior

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 479-495

  Rossbach A ^a,b   Lohr B ^b   Vidal, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Diadegma semiclausum; Host shift; Pisum sativum; Plutella xylostella

Indexed keywords

BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA; DIADEGMA SEMICLAUSUM; LEPIDOPTERA; PISUM SATIVUM; PLUTELLA XYLOSTELLA;

EID: 33750302045     PISSN: 08927553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10905-006-9040-5     Document Type: Article

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