Cross-stage consequences of egg temperature in the insect Manduca sexta

Functional Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 548-556

  Potter, Kristen A ^a   Davidowitz, Goggy ^b   Arthur Woods, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex life cycles; Datura wrightii; Embryonic temperature; Growth rate; Head capsules; Heat shock; Life history stages; Metamorphosis; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

EGG; FECUNDITY; FITNESS; GROWTH RATE; HEAT SHOCK; INSECT; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LIFE CYCLE; METAMORPHOSIS; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

DATURA; DATURA WRIGHTII; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; MANDUCA; MANDUCA SEXTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79955523835     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01807.x     Document Type: Article

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