Taxon-Biased diet preference in the 'generalist' beetle-Hunting wasp cerceris rubida provides insights on the evolution of prey specialization in apoid wasps

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 544-558

  Polidori, Carlo ^a   Gobbi, Mauro ^b   Chatenoud, Liliana ^c   Santoro, Davide ^a   Montani, Olga ^a   Andrietti, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b MUSEO TRIDENTINO DI SCIENZE NATURALI   (Italy)

^c MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biological traits; Individual selection; Provisioning; Resource use

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEETLE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOOD PREFERENCE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORPHOLOGY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY SELECTION; RESOURCE USE; SPECIALIZATION; TAXONOMY; WASP;

APOIDEA; CERCERIS; COLEOPTERA; SPHECIDAE;

EID: 76549117452     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01397.x     Document Type: Article

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