The costs and benefits of host feeding in parasitoids
Parasitoids are ideal organisms for testing theories concerning the trade-off between current and future reproduction. Upon encountering a host, a female has to decide whether to lay an egg, and thus invest in her current reproduction, or feed on the host to invest in her future reproduction. Theory...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2005
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