Sex-specific developmental plasticity of generalist and specialist predatory mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) in response to food stress

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 650-660

  Walzer, Andreas ^a   Schausberger, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adaptive canalization hypothesis; Diet specificity; Environmental stress; Ephemeral food resource; Reaction norm

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CANALIZATION (BIOLOGY); DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FITNESS; GENERALIST; MITE; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SIZE AT MATURITY; SPECIALIST; SURVIVAL;

ACARI; AMBLYSEIUS ANDERSONI; ARANEAE; NEOSEIULUS CALIFORNICUS; PHYTOSEIIDAE; PHYTOSEIULUS PERSIMILIS; TETRANYCHIDAE;

EID: 79751490028     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01593.x     Document Type: Article

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