Parent-offspring conflicts, "optimal bad motherhood" and the "mother knows best" principles in insect herbivores colonizing novel host plants

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1446-1457

  García Robledo, Carlos ^a   Horvitz, Carol C ^a  

^a University of Miami   (United States)

Author keywords

Exotic plants; Feeding preference; Larval and adult survival; Oviposition preference; Parent and offspring performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881610210     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.267     Document Type: Article

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