Different patterns of oviposition learning in two closely related ectoparasitoid wasps with contrasting reproductive strategies

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 117-124

  Sasakawa, Kôji ^a   Uchijima, Kenta ^a   Shibao, Harunobu ^a   Shimada, Masakazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Choice experiment; Host preference; Offspring sex ratio; Oviposition learning; r K strategies; Species comparison

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HOST PREFERENCE; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; MEMORY; OVIPOSITION; PARASITOID; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEX RATIO; WASP;

ANISOPTEROMALUS CALANDRAE; CALLOSOBRUCHUS CHINENSIS; CALLOSOBRUCHUS MACULATUS; VIGNA UNGUICULATA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; LEARNING; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SEX RATIO; WASP;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LARVA; LEARNING; MALE; OVIPOSITION; POPULATION DENSITY; SEX RATIO; WASPS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875237456     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-012-1001-6     Document Type: Article

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