Cryptic diversity and female host specificity in a parasitoid where the sexes utilize hosts from separate orders

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1508-1528

  Hayward, Alexander ^a   McMahon, Dino P ^a   Kathirithamby, Jeyaraney ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

heterotrophic heteronomy; life cycle complexity; parasite; Strepsiptera

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FOSSIL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; INSECT; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FOSSILS; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; INSECTS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; PHYLOGENY;

CAENOCHOLAX; CAENOCHOLAX FENYESI; FORMICIDAE; GRYLLIDAE; INSECTA; MANTODEA; MYRMECOLACIDAE; STREPSIPTERA;

EID: 79953061849     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05010.x     Document Type: Article

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