Sex allocation in a species with paternal genome elimination: The roles of crowding and female age in the mealybug Planococcus citri

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 89-104

  Ross, Laura ^a,b   Langenhof, Minke B W ^a   Pen, Ido ^a   Beukeboom, Leo W ^a   West, Stuart A ^c   Shuker, David M ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Local resource competition; Mealybug; Sex determination; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

PLANOCOCCUS CITRI; PSEUDOCOCCIDAE;

EID: 76049116766     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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