Behavioural phase polyphenism in the Australian plague locust (Chortoicetes terminifera)

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 306-309

  Gray, Lindsey J ^a   Sword, Gregory A ^a   Anstey, Michael L ^a   Clissold, Fiona J ^a   Simpson, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Insect; Migration; Phase polyphenism; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CONSPECIFIC; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; JUVENILE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LOCUST; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SWARMING;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR; CHORTOICETES TERMINIFERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; JUVENILE; LIFESPAN; LOCUST; NONHUMAN; POLYPHENISM; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; SPECIES;

CHORTOICETES TERMINIFERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 67649107485     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0764     Document Type: Article

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