Sex allocation strategies in response to conspecifics' offspring sex ratio in solitary parasitoids

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 107-112

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

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

Discrimination capacities; Intraspecific competition; Oviposition behavior; Sex ratio games; Superparasitism

Indexed keywords

CONSPECIFIC; ECTOPARASITE; FIGHTING; FITNESS; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LARVA; OVIPOSITION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; SUPERPARASITISM; WASP;

ANISOPTEROMALUS CALANDRAE;

EID: 72649101381     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp156     Document Type: Article

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