Production of undersized offspring in a solitary bee

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 809-816

  Bosch, Jordi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

body size; conditional sex allocation; Megachilidae; optimal allocation theory; Osmia cornuta; parental investment; sex ratio; solitary bee

Indexed keywords

BEE; BODY SIZE; FITNESS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; KLEPTOPARASITISM; MORTALITY; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL;

APOIDEA; MEGACHILIDAE; OSMIA CORNUTA;

EID: 39449126227     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.06.018     Document Type: Article

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