Facultative sex ratio adjustment in natural populations of wasps: Cues of local mate competition and the precision of adaptation

American Naturalist

Volumn 172, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 393-404

  Burton Chellew, Maxwell N ^a   Koevoets, Tosca ^b   Grillenberger, Bernd K ^b   Sykes, Edward M ^a   Underwood, Sarah L ^a   Bijlsma, Kuke ^b   Gadau, Juergen ^c   Van De Zande, Louis ^b   Beukeboom, Leo W ^b   West, Stuart A ^a   Shuker, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Microsatellites; Nasonia; Parasitoid; Sex allocation; Superparasitism

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ADAPTATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FECUNDITY; GENETIC MARKER; MODEL TEST; OVIPOSITION; PARASITOID; RELATEDNESS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; WASP;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX RATIO; WASP;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVIPOSITION; SEX RATIO; WASPS;

NASONIA; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS;

EID: 44849096328     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/589895     Document Type: Article

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