Coevolution of daily activity timing in a host-parasite system

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 399-405

  Ortolani, Irene ^a   Cervo, Rita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arms race; Polistes wasps; Social parasitism

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; ADAPTATION; COEVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; OPTIMIZATION; SOCIAL PARASITISM; WASP;

AVES; CUCULIDAE; POLISTES;

EID: 58549097847     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01139.x     Document Type: Article

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