Effects of superparasitism on immature and adult stages of Diachasmimorpha longicaudata Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) reared on Ceratitis capitata Wiedemann (Diptera: Tephritidae)

The optimal use of available host by parasitoid insects should be favoured by natural selection. For solitary parasitoids, superparasitism (i.e. the egg-laying of several eggs/host) may represent a detrimental phenomenon both in a biological and an applied sense, but under certain circumstances it m...

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Autores principales: Devescovi, Francisco, Bachmann, Guillermo Enrique, Nussenbaum, Ana Laura, Viscarret, Mariana Mabel, Cladera, Jorge Luis, Segura, Diego Fernando
Formato: Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2017
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/1028
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28382881
https://doi.org/10.1017/S000748531700027X

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