Nature's swiss army knives: Ovipositor structure mirrors ecology in a multitrophic fig wasp community

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Ghara, Mahua ^a   Kundanati, Lakshminath ^a   Borges, Renee M ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CHEMOSENSILLUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; EGG LAYING; FICUS; FICUS RACEMOSA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MECHANORECEPTOR; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PARASITOID; POLLINATION; PREDICTION; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; SENSILLUM; TROPHIC LEVEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WASP; ANIMAL; BIOTA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGAONIDAE; FICUS RACEMOSA; MORACEAE; VESPOIDEA;

ANIMALS; BIOTA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FICUS; OVIPOSITION; WASPS;

EID: 80052331978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023642     Document Type: Article

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