Variation in growth and instar number in field and laboratory Manduca sexta

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1612, 2007, Pages 977-981

  Kingsolver, Joel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size evolution; Developmental plasticity; Growth rate; Instar number; Manduca sexta

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION; GROWTH RATE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; METAMORPHOSIS; MOTH;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL DIET; BODY GROWTH; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH RATE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MANDUCA SEXTA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; UNITED STATES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; METAMORPHOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

HEXAPODA; MANDUCA; MANDUCA SEXTA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; DIET; EVOLUTION; LARVA; MANDUCA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; NORTH CAROLINA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34248596347     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.0036     Document Type: Article

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