Effects of host-plant shift on immune and other key life-history traits of an eruptive Geometrid, Epirrita autumnata (Borkhausen)

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 510-516

  Yang, Shiyong ^a   Ruuhola, Teija ^a   Haviola, Sanna ^a   Rantala, Markus J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Autumnal moth; Betula; Encapsulation; Host plant; Immunocompetence; Life history traits; Mountain birch; Phenoloxidase; Salix Vaccinium

Indexed keywords

DECIDUOUS TREE; ENCAPSULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HOST PLANT; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MOTH; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION OUTBREAK;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

BETULA; BETULA NANA; BETULA PUBESCENS; BETULA PUBESCENS SUBSP. TORTUOSA; EPIRRITA AUTUMNATA; GEOMETRIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA; SALIX; SALIX MYRSINIFOLIA; VACCINIUM; VACCINIUM ULIGINOSUM;

EID: 64549092489     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2008.01000.x     Document Type: Article

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