Host choice decisions in the polyembryonic wasp Copidosoma koehleri (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae)

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 40-45

  Segoli, Michal ^a   Keasar, Tamar ^b   Bouskila, Amos ^a   Harari, Ally ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Copidosoma koehleri; Host choice; Host quality; Polyembryonic parasitoid wasps; Soldier larva; Superparasitism.

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; FITNESS; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; HOST QUALITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; OVIPOSITION; PARASITOID; SURVIVAL; WASP;

COPIDOSOMA KOEHLERI; ENCYRTIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 77954450145     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: 13653032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.2009.00708.x     Document Type: Article

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