Months of asynchrony in offspring production but synchronous adult emergence: The role of diapause in an Ectoparasite's life cycle

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1408-1414

  Härkönen, Laura ^a   Kaitala, Arja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Diapause cost; Ectoparasite; Overwintering; Viviparity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; DIAPAUSE; ECTOPARASITE; EMERGENCE; FLY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HOST QUALITY; LIFE CYCLE; PHENOLOGY; PHOTOPERIOD; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COLD; DEER; DIPTERA; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; COLD TEMPERATURE; DEER; DIPTERA; FEMALE; MALE; PHOTOPERIOD; PUPA;

EID: 84891132946     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN12147     Document Type: Article

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