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Individual variation in oviposition preference, and its interaction with larval performance in an insect predator

Hussein Sadeghi1, Francis Gilbert1

  • 1Division of Behaviour, Infection and Immunity, School of Biological Sciences, University Park, Nottingham University, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK e-mail: plxhsm@pln1.life.nott.ac.uk, , , , , , GB.

Oecologia
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Individual variationKey words PredatorsPreference-performance interactionSyrphidae

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