Sustenance and performance: nutritional reserves, longevity and contest outcomes of fed and starved adult parasitoid wasps
Dyadic contests for possession of resources occur across a wide range of animal taxa, with contest outcome often being heavily influenced by the energetic reserves of the competitors. The majority of studied parasitoid wasps lack de novo lipogenesis, with adult lipid reserves being limited to those...
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Frontiers Media
2018
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49325/ |