Does mother know best? The preference-performance hypothesis and parent-offspring conflict in aboveground-belowground herbivore life cycles

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 117-124

  Clark, Katherine E ^a,b   Hartley, Susan E ^b   Johnson, Scott N ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Insect; Oviposition; Preference Performance; Raspberry; Vine Weevil

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BEETLE; CONSPECIFIC; FRUIT; HERBIVORY; HOST PLANT; HOST PREFERENCE; HOST SELECTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; OVIPOSITION; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHYTOMASS; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; ROOT SYSTEM; VINE;

HEXAPODA; OTIORHYNCHUS SULCATUS; RUBUS GLAUCUS; RUBUS IDAEUS;

EID: 79952614011     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2010.01248.x     Document Type: Article

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