Aphid Parasitoid Mothers Don't Always Know Best through the Whole Host Selection Process.

Parasitoid host selection behaviour has been extensively studied in experimentally simplified tritrophic systems formed by one single food chain (one plant, one herbivore and one parasitoid species). The "Mother knows best" hypothesis predicts that the preference for a plant-host complex s...

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Main Authors: Quentin Chesnais, Arnaud Ameline, Géraldine Doury, Vincent Le Roux, Aude Couty
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4535949?pdf=render