The type and timing of social information alters offspring production

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 482-485

  Fletcher Jr , Robert J ^a   Miller, Christine W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Oviposition; Prior information; Public information; Reproductive investment

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EGG; INSECT; OVIPOSITION; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; EGG PRODUCTION; FEMALE; INSECT; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ANIMALIA; CACTACEAE; CHELINIDEA VITTIGER;

EID: 51549116149     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0306     Document Type: Article

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