Occurrence of protandry in an aseasonal multivoltine moth: Implications for body-size evolution

Current Science

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 513-518

  Muralimohan, K ^a,c   Srinivasa, Y B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF WOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c Monsanto India Ltd   (India)

Author keywords

Discrete generations; Monandry; Opisina arenosella; Protandry; Reproductive asynchrony

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 40549093297     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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