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Larval life-styles and oviposition behaviour of parasites and grazers

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We apply a theory for the computation of reproductive success for insects whose offspring can move from the host on which they hatch to compute the expected reproductive success associated with two kinds of oviposition behaviour. In the first type, accept or reject (AR), the ovipositing female either accepts a host for oviposition and lays her entire egg complement or rejects the host for oviposition. In the second type, clutch optimization (CO), the ovipositing female adjusts clutch according to host properties. The strongest prediction of our theory is that parasites which are both pro-ovigenic (emerge with essentially a full complement of eggs) and use the AR behaviour will be very rare.

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  1. Section of Zoology and Center for Population Biology, University of California, 95616, Davis, CA, USA

    Marc Mangel

  2. Department of Biological Sciences and Centre for Pest Management, Simon Fraser University, V5A 1S6, Burnaby, BC, Canada

    Bernard D. Roitberg

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Mangel, M., Roitberg, B.D. Larval life-styles and oviposition behaviour of parasites and grazers. Evol Ecol 7, 401–405 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01237871

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