Fighting fungi with physics: Food wrapping by a solitary wasp prevents water condensation

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Herzner, Gudrun ^a,b   Strohm, Erhard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BEE; FEMALE; FOOD CONTROL; FUNGUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LETTER; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; WASP;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FUNGI; WASPS; WATER;

FUNGI; MEGASCOLIA FLAVIFRONS;

EID: 33846221006     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.11.060     Document Type: Letter

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