Natural enemy defense, provisioning and oviposition site selection as maternal strategies to enhance offspring survival in a sub-social bug

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About the Authors

Maurilio López-Ortega

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto de Biotecnología y Ecología Aplicada (INBIOTECA), Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico

Trevor Williams

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto de Ecología AC (INECOL), Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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