The effect of travel time on oviposition behavior and spatial egg aggregation: Experiments with Drosophila

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 241-248

  Takahashi, Kazuo H ^a,b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aggregation theory; Diptera; Drosophila auraria; Drosophila immigrans; Drosophila simulans; Drosophilidae; Egg load; Resource availability; Travel cost hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; OVIPOSITION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRAVEL TIME;

DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA AURARIA; DROSOPHILA IMMIGRANS; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; DROSOPHILIDAE;

EID: 34547997823     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2007.00583.x     Document Type: Article

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