A behavioural analysis of phase change in the desert locust

Biological Reviews

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 461-480

  Simpson, Stephen J ^a   McCaffery, Alan R ^a   HÄgele, Bernd F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Cellular automata; Egg pod foam; Epigenetic; Gregarization; Individual based modelling; Locusts; Maternal effect; Paternal effect; Phase change; Phenotypic plasticity; Polymorphism; Population dynamics; Schistocerca gregaria; Swarming

Indexed keywords

EID: 85040494532     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.1999.tb00038.x     Document Type: Article

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