Ability to host regulate determines host choice and reproductive success in the gregarious ectoparasitoid Eulophus pennicornis (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae)

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 62-72

  Bell, Howard A ^a   Weaver, Robert J ^a  

^a CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecdysteroids; Juvenile hormone; Noctuid; Parasitoid; Parasitoid host interactions

Indexed keywords

ECTOPARASITE; HOST PREFERENCE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; OVIPOSITION; PARASITOID; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SURVIVAL; WASP;

EULOPHIDAE; EULOPHUS PENNICORNIS; HYMENOPTERA; LACANOBIA OLERACEA; NOCTUIDAE;

EID: 38949125108     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: 13653032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.2007.00605.x     Document Type: Article

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