Using effects of parasitoid size on fitness to test a host quality model assumption with the parasitoid wasp Spalangia endius

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1678-1682

  King, B H ^a   Napoleon, M E ^a,b  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b John G Shedd Aquarium   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

DIMORPHISM; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL SIZE DIMORPHISM;

BIODIVERSITY;

BODY SIZE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; FLY; HOST QUALITY; OVIPOSITION; PARASITOID; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SIZE EFFECT; WASP;

MUSCA DOMESTICA; SPALANGIA ENDIUS;

EID: 33947190886     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z06-162     Document Type: Article

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