Density-related variation in vertical transmission of a virus in the African armyworm

Oecologia

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 237-246

  Vilaplana, Lluisa ^a,d   Redman, Elizabeth M ^a,e   Wilson, Kenneth ^b   Cory, Jenny S ^a,c  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ALGOMA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Costs of resistance; Gregariousness; Phase polyphenism; Sublethal effects; Transovarial transmission

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; FECUNDITY; LARVA; MOTH; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; SURVIVAL; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRAL DISEASE; VIRUS;

ANIMAL; ARMYWORM; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LARVA; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYHEDROSIS VIRUS; POPULATION DENSITY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LARVA; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; POPULATION DENSITY; SPODOPTERA;

AFRICA;

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; SPODOPTERA EXEMPTA;

EID: 39249084320     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0914-9     Document Type: Article

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