Article
Phenotypic variation in food utilization in an outbreak insect herbivore.
Insect science - 1 Jun 2018
Quezada-García Roberto, Fuentealba Álvaro, Bauce Éric
Abstract excerpt
The effects of nutrition may have subtantial impact on insect evolution by shaping different components of phenotypes. The key to undestanding this evolutionary process is to know how nutritional condition affects additive and nonadditive components of the phenotype. However, this is poorly understood in outbreaking insects. We investigated the additive and nonadditive variation present in food utilization traits...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
