Defection by plants in the yucca-yucca moth association: A test of the cheater plant hypothesis for Yucca treculeana

Oikos

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 321-328

  Crabb, Beau Amadeus ^a   Pellmyr, Olle ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MOTH; MUTUALISM; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; POLLINATOR;

ANIMALIA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; PRODOXIDAE; TEGETICULA YUCCASELLA; YUCCA; YUCCA BACCATA; YUCCA TRECULEANA;

EID: 5144230335     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.13154.x     Document Type: Article

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