Could different environmental conditions select for different flight characteristics in sexual and asexual parasitoid Venturia canescens?

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 80-88

  Lukáš, Jan ^a,b   Bernstein, Carlos ^c   Gu, Hainan ^b,d   Dorn, Silvia ^b  

^a CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Flight capacity; Hymenoptera; Ichneumonidae; Sexual reproduction

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BODY SIZE; COEXISTENCE; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; FLY; HABITAT SELECTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NATURAL SELECTION; PARASITOID; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; WASP;

ANIMALIA; HYMENOPTERA; ICHNEUMONIDAE; VENTURIA CANESCENS;

EID: 77954646329     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2010.01000.x     Document Type: Article

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