Wall-making behavior as a proximate mechanism to generate variation in larval competition in Callosobruchus maculatus (Coleoptera: Bruchidae)

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 177-191

  Mano, Hiroyuki ^a   Toquenaga, Yukihiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bruchidae; Competition strategy; Contest competition; Exploitation; Interference; Scramble competition; Stored pest

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LARVA; LEGUME;

BRUCHINAE; CALLOSOBRUCHUS MACULATUS; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 39049137465     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-007-9167-7     Document Type: Article

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