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Host habitat assessment by a parasitoid using fungal volatiles

BACKGROUND: The preference – performance hypothesis predicts that oviposition preference of insects should correlate with host suitability for offspring development. Therefore, insect females have to be able to assess not only the quality of a given host but also the environmental conditions of the...

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Autores principales: Steiner, Sven, Erdmann, Daniel, Steidle, Johannes LM, Ruther, Joachim
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1797040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17284315
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-4-3