THE LABORATORY BIOLOGY AND REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGIES OF LEPTOPILINA BOULARDI (HYMENOPTERA: CYNIPIDAE).

Title: THE LABORATORY BIOLOGY AND REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGIES OF LEPTOPILINA BOULARDI (HYMENOPTERA: CYNIPIDAE).
Identifier: AAI8212199
identifier: 8212199
Creator: KOPELMAN, ARTHUR HAROLD.
Contributor: Peter C. Chabora
Date: 1982
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Biology, General
Abstract: The courtship and searching behavior, reproductive biology, and life-history tactics of Leptopilina boulardi were examined. The patterns of progeny production and host utilization that emerged, regardless of host species, suggest a highly plastic reproductive strategy that affords maximal opportunity for parasitism when hosts are patchily distributed, yet allows for opportunistic exploitation when hosts are abundant. This species' reproductive tactics fit well into theory regarding reproductive plasticity as an adaptive strategy.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.
Program: Biology

Media: THE LABORATORY BIOLOGY AND REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGIES OF LEPTOPILINA BOULARDI (HYMENOPTERA: CYNIPIDAE).