Heritability of defence and life-history traits in the two-spotted spider mite

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1271-1281

  Tien, N S H ^a   Sabelis, M W ^a   Egas, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Elimination selection hypothesis; Tetranychus urticae; Trade off; Variance compounding

Indexed keywords

ACARI; ARANEAE; TETRANYCHIDAE; TETRANYCHUS URTICAE;

EID: 73849119950     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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