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Insect ecology

the prediction that female herbivorous insects lay eggs on the host plants where their offspring perform best.

In insect ecology, preference-performance hypothesis refers to the prediction that female herbivorous insects lay eggs on the host plants where their offspring perform best. This meaning comes from Jaenike (1978) in Theoretical Population Biology.[1]

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References

Jaenike, J. (1978). On optimal oviposition behavior in phytophagous insects. Theoretical Population Biology, 14(3), 350-356. https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-5809(78)90012-6

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