Parasitoid developmental mortality in the field: patterns, causes and consequences for sex ratio and virginity
1. Sex ratio theory predicts that developmental mortality can affect sex ratio optima under Local Mate Competition and also lead to ‘virgin’ broods containing only females with no sibling-mating opportunities on maturity. 2. Estimates of developmental mortality and its sex ratio effects have been l...
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Wiley
2010
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42653/ |