Sex-ratio Manipulation by the Parasitoid Wasp Muscidifurax Raptor in Response to Host Size.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Evolution; international journal of organic evolution
دوره 47 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1993