Natural host-plant quality affects immune defence of an insect herbivore

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 167-176

  Klemola, Netta ^a   Klemola, Tero ^a   Rantala, Markus J ^a   Ruuhola, Teija ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Encapsulation reaction; Epirrita autumnata; Genetic correlations; Geometridae; Half sib design; Heritability; Lepidoptera; Mountain birch; Parasitism; Phenoloxidase activity; Tritrophic interactions

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; DECIDUOUS TREE; ENCAPSULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOOD QUALITY; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORE; HERITABILITY; HOST PLANT; HOST QUALITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LARVA; MOTH; PARASITISM; PUPATION; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

BETULA PUBESCENS; BETULA PUBESCENS SUBSP. TORTUOSA; BETULACEAE; EPIRRITA AUTUMNATA; GEOMETRIDAE; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 34247334143     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2007.00533.x     Document Type: Article

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