Sustenance and Performance: Nutritional Reserves, Longevity, and Contest Outcomes of Fed and Starved Adult Parasitoid Wasps

Dyadic contests for possession of resources occur across a wide range of animal taxa, with contest outcome often being heavily influenced by the energetic reserves of the competitors. The majority of studied parasitoid wasps lack de novo lipogenesis, with adult lipid reserves being limited to those...

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Main Authors: Charles J. P. Snart, Apostolos Kapranas, Huw Williams, David A. Barrett, Ian C. W. Hardy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fevo.2018.00012/full