Development of a positive preference-performance relationship in an oligophagous beetle: Adaptive learning?

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 119-124

  Xue, Huai Jun ^a   Egas, Martijn ^b   Yang, Xing Ke ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agrimonia pilosa; Altica fragariae; Body mass; Chrysomelidae; Coleoptera; Development time; Duchesnea indica; Eclosion rate; Fecundity; Potentilla chinensis; Sanguisorba officinalis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEETLE; DICOTYLEDON; FECUNDITY; FITNESS; HOST PLANT; LEARNING; OVIPOSITION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SYMPATRY;

AGRIMONIA; AGRIMONIA PILOSA; ALTICA; ALTICINI; CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; DUCHESNEA INDICA; HEXAPODA; POTENTILLA; POTENTILLA CHINENSIS; ROSACEAE; SANGUISORBA; SANGUISORBA OFFICINALIS; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 35349007499     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2007.00605.x     Document Type: Article

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