Discrimination of the age of conspecific eggs by an ovipositing ectoparasitic wasp

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 28-34

  Lebreton, Sébastien ^a   Labarussias, Maureen ^a   Chevrier, Claude ^a   Darrouzet, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

Anisopteromalus calandrae; Callosobruchus maculatus; Hymenoptera; Larval competition; Local mate competition; Oviposition behaviour; Pteromalidae; Scramble competition; Sex ratio; Solitary ectoparasitoid; Superparasitism

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CONSPECIFIC; EGG; FITNESS; LARVA; OVIPOSITION; PARASITISM; PROBABILITY; SCRAMBLE COMPETITION; SEX RATIO; WASP;

ANISOPTEROMALUS CALANDRAE; BRUCHINAE; CALLOSOBRUCHUS MACULATUS; COLEOPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; PTEROMALIDAE;

EID: 57349098281     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2008.00790.x     Document Type: Article

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