Egg parasitoids select for large clutch sizes and covering layers in pine processionary moths (Thaumetopoea pityocampa)

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 587-597

  Pérez Contreras, Tomás ^a   Soler, Juan José ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; EGG PARASITOID; EGG SIZE; ENERGY BUDGET; TRADE-OFF;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; THAUMETOPOEA PITYOCAMPA; THAUMETOPOEIDAE;

EID: 4544249475     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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