Proliferating bacterial symbionts on house fly eggs affect oviposition behaviour of adult flies

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 81-92

  Lam, Kevin ^a   Babor, Daron ^a   Duthie, Bruce ^a   Babor, Elisa Marie ^a   Moore, Margo ^a   Gries, Gerhard ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

bacterial symbiont; communication ecology; house fly; microhabitat management; Musca domestica; reproductive strategy; signalling

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; EGG; FLY; OVIPOSITION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SIGNALING; SYMBIONT;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DIPTERA; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; MUSCA DOMESTICA; MUSCIDAE;

EID: 34347266196     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.11.013     Document Type: Article

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