Comparison of plant preference hierarchies of male and female moths and the impact of larval rearing hosts

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1744-1752

  Thöming, Gunda ^a,c   Larsson, Mattias C ^a   Hansson, Bill S ^a,b   Anderson, Peter ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Egyptian cotton leaf worm; Host plant choice; Innate preference; Larval host experience; Lepidoptera; Male mate location; Oviposition; Plant hierarchy; Plasticity; Polyphagy; Sex based plant preferences; Spodoptera littoralis

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; HOST PLANT; HOST QUALITY; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MOTH; ODOR; OVIPOSITION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR;

GOSSYPIUM BARBADENSE; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; SPODOPTERA LITTORALIS;

EID: 84881222452     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0907.1     Document Type: Article

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