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Body and Wing Allometries Reveal Flight-Fecundity Tradeoff in Response to Larval Provisioning in Osmia lignaria (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

Variation in body size has important implications for physical performance and fitness. For insects, adult size and morphology are determined by larval growth and metamorphosis. Female blue orchard bees, Osmia lignaria, (Say) provision a finite quantity of food to their offspring. In this study, we...

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Autores principales: Helm, Bryan R, Baldwin, Maxwell A, Rinehart, Joseph P, Yocum, George D, Greenlee, Kendra J, Bowsher, Julia H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8192885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34113998
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/ieab035