Larval food plants affect flight and reproduction in an oligophagous insect herbivore

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1471-1476

  Coll, M ^a   Yuval, B ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dispersal reproduction syndrome; Energy reserves; Host plant quality; Phthorimaea operculella; Wing loading

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; HERBIVORE; HOST QUALITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; REPRODUCTION; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMALIA; GELECHIDAE; GELECHIIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PHTHORIMAEA OPERCULELLA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 7644235067     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-33.5.1471     Document Type: Article

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