Current understanding and future prospects of host selection, acceptance, discrimination, and regulation of phorid fly parasitoids that attack ants

Psyche (London)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mathis, Kaitlyn A ^a   Philpott, Stacy M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOCEPHALUS; DIPTERA; FORMICIDAE; NEODOHRNIPHORA; PHORIDAE; PSEUDACTEON (DIPTERAN FLY);

EID: 84856953894     PISSN: 00332615     EISSN: 16877438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/895424     Document Type: Review

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