Journal article
Transfer of life-history phenology from mothers to progeny in a solitary univoltine parasitoid
Physiological entomology, Vol.35(2), pp.192-195
Accepted 31 January 2010First published online 23 March 2010
06/2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.2010.00725.x
Abstract
Among univoltine insects that experience diapause, differences in emergence timing between adult males and females are expected to be dictated by sex-specific developmental factors. In multivoltine insects without a diapause, there is often an additional relationship between the date of oviposition and the date of adult emergence. Differences between male and female emergence timing in the latter case can therefore be influenced by female sex-allocation decisions. In the present study, it is shown that eggs of a univoltine parasitoid wasp Diachasma alloeum Muesebeck (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) that are laid earlier also eclose earlier during the subsequent year, independent of (although complementary to) sex-related differences in development time. The implications of this pattern for sex allocation decisions by female univoltine parasitoids are discussed. © 2010 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2010 The Royal Entomological Society.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Transfer of life-history phenology from mothers to progeny in a solitary univoltine parasitoid
- Creators
- ANDREW A Forbes - Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, California, U.S.AKIRSTEN S PELZ-STELINSKI - University of Florida Citrus Research and Education Center, Lake Alfred, Florida, U.S.ARUFUS Isaacs - Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Physiological entomology, Vol.35(2), pp.192-195
- Edition
- Accepted 31 January 2010First published online 23 March 2010
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1365-3032.2010.00725.x
- ISSN
- 0307-6962
- eISSN
- 1365-3032
- Number of pages
- 4
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/2010
- Academic Unit
- Biology; University College Courses
- Record Identifier
- 9984217539802771
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