The elusive paradox: Owner-intruder roles, strategies, and outcomes in parasitoid contests

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 296-304

  Bentley, Tom ^a   Hull, Tristan T ^a   Hardy, Ian C W ^a   Goubault, Marlne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

Antibourgeois strategy; Goniozus legneri; Maternal investment; Paradoxical strategy; Partial respect; Resource value asymmetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASYMMETRY; BODY SIZE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; WASP;

GONIOZUS LEGNERI;

EID: 64949167442     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp007     Document Type: Article

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