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Intra- and interspecific host discrimination by host-seeking larvae of coleopteran parasitoids

✍ Scribed by Lucie Royer; Sylvain Fournet; Etienne Brunel; Guy Boivin

Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Weight: 212 KB
Volume: 118
Category: Article
ISSN: 0029-8549
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050703

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