Encountering competitors reduces clutch size and increases offspring size in a parasitoid with female-female fighting

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1625, 2007, Pages 2571-2577

  Goubault, Marlène ^a   Mack, Alexandra F S ^a   Hardy, Ian C W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clutch size; Contests; Game theory; Intergenerational fitness

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; EGG PRODUCTION; FEMALE; FIGHTING; GAME THEORY; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; OVIPOSITION; PARASITOID; WASP;

ARTICLE; CLUTCH SIZE; COMPETITOR SPECIES; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIGHTING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; PARASITOID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY;

GONIOZUS NEPHANTIDIS;

EID: 34848823804     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0867     Document Type: Article

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