The physiological costs of being small in a parasitic wasp

Journal article

Knowledge of the relationship between body size and fitness is essential in many models of parasitoid evolutionary ecology. One clear point emerging from previous studies is that the relationship between size and fitness can depend strongly (qualitatively and quantitatively) on the environment in which it is measured. Our results show that, in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis, the relationship between parasitoid size and fitness is strongly dependent on the nutritional status of the fe...

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Authors: Rivero, A; West, SA

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY RESEARCH
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 407-420
• Publication date: 2002-03-01
• ISSN: 1522-0613
• Language: English
• Keywords: resource allocation; size-fitness relationship; lipids; parasitoids