Shifting preference between oviposition vs. host-feeding under changing host densities in two aphelinid parasitoids

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Yang, Nian Wan ^a   Ji, Lu Lu ^a   Lövei, Gabor L ^a,b   Wan, Fang Hao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EGG LAYING; ENCARSIA SOPHIA; ERETMOCERUS HAYATI; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; GENDER; HOST; HOST CHOICE TEST; HOST DENSITY; HOST FEEDING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PARASITOID; SWEET POTATO WHITEFLY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HEMIPTERA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HYMENOPTERA; LARVA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NYMPH; OVIPOSITION; POPULATION DENSITY; WASPS;

ALEYRODIDAE; APHELINIDAE; BEMISIA TABACI; ENCARSIA SOPHIA; ERETMOCERUS HAYATI;

EID: 84864003613     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041189     Document Type: Article

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