Does immune function influence population fluctuations and level of parasitism in the cyclic geometrid moth?

Population Ecology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 165-178

  Klemola, Tero ^a   Klemola, Netta ^a   Andersson, Tommi ^a   Ruohomäki, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Encapsulation; Forest Lepidoptera; Geometridae; Insect immunity; Population cycles

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ENCAPSULATION; GRAZING; HERBIVORE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LARVA; MOTH; PARASITISM; PARASITOID; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; POPULATION CYCLE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE;

EPIRRITA AUTUMNATA; GEOMETRIDAE; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 33947175637     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-007-0035-7     Document Type: Article

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