Oviposition Substrate of the Mountain Fly Drosophila nigrosparsa (Diptera: Drosophilidae).

The survival of insect larvae often depends on the mother's choice of oviposition substrate, and thus, this choice is an essential part of an insect species' ecology. Especially species with narrow substrate preferences may suffer from changes in substrate availability triggered by, for ex...

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Main Authors: Martin-Carl Kinzner, Magdalena Tratter, Gerhard Bächli, Martin Kirchmair, Rüdiger Kaufmann, Wolfgang Arthofer, Birgit C Schlick-Steiner, Florian M Steiner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0165743