Xenocide, Suicide, and Cannibalism in Flour Beetles
- 1 March 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 102 (924) , 97-105
- https://doi.org/10.1086/282530
Abstract
Evidence is presented to support the notion that populations of the flour beetle, Tribolium casta-neum, are capable of adapting to a medium consisting solely of corn flour, and that after eliminating T. confusum in "competition" experiments, their numbers do not decline to the point of self-elimination. The effects of selection for fast rate of development on cannibalistic activity of T. castaneum and some aspects of cannibalism in laboratory populations are discussed.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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