Trophic eggs compensate for poor offspring feeding capacity in a subsocial burrower bug

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 194-196

  Baba, Narumi ^a   Hironaka, Mantaro ^b   Hosokawa, Takahiro ^c   Mukai, Hiromi ^d   Nomakuchi, Shintaro ^d   Ueno, Takatoshi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^d SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Canthophorus niveimarginatus; Constraints; Maternal investment; Starvation

Indexed keywords

BURROWING ORGANISM; COMPENSATION; EGG PRODUCTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INSECT; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SOCIAL INSECT; STARVATION; SURVIVAL; SYMBIONT;

ANIMALIA; CYDNIDAE; HETEROPTERA; SEHIRUS;

EID: 79954455822     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0707     Document Type: Article

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