Previous experience and contest outcome: Winner effects persist in absence of evident loser effects in a parasitoid wasp

American Naturalist

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 364-371

  Goubault, Marlène ^a   Decuignière, Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

Contest outcome; Resource holding potential; Resource value; Winner loser effect

Indexed keywords

CONTEST COMPETITION; FIGHTING; GAME THEORY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARASITOID; PERSISTENCE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WASP; WINTER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INSECT; LARVA; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; WASP;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LARVA; MALE; OVIPOSITION; PUPA; WASPS;

ANIMALIA; EUPELMUS VUILLETI;

EID: 84864683782     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/667192     Document Type: Article

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