Crazy wasps: When parasites manipulate the Polistes phenotype

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 43, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 564-574

  Beani, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGG PARASITOID; HOST USE; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE; OVERWINTERING; PARASITE INTENSITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; WASP;

POLISTES; POLISTES DOMINULUS; STREPSIPTERA; XENOS; XENOS VESPARUM;

EID: 33846867261     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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