Karen M. Kester
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Publications of Karen M. Kester (13 listed):
Ecological Entomology (2020) 45, 79-89
M. Elizabeth Moore, Karen M. Kester and Joel G. Kingsolver (2020)
Rearing temperature and parasitoid load determine host and parasitoid performance in Manduca sexta and Cotesia congregata
PLoS ONE (2018) 13 (6 - e0198803)
Salvatore J. Agosta, Kanchan A. Joshi and Karen M. Kester (2018)
Upper thermal limits differ among and within component species in a tritrophic host-parasitoid-hyperparasitoid system
Annals of the Entomological Society of America (2015) 108, 1014-1025
Karen M. Kester, Georgia M. Eldeib and Bonnie L. Brown (2015)
Genetic differentiation of two host–foodplant complex sources of Cotesia congregata (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
Annals of the Entomological Society of America (2015) 108, 1026-1036
J.P. Bredlau and K.M. Kester (2015)
Pre- and postzygotic barriers to reproduction between two host-foodplant complex sources of the parasitic wasp, Cotesia congregata (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
Journal of Insect Behavior (2013) 26, 165-175
Amanda J. Lentz-Ronning and Karen M. Kester (2013)
Effect of sequential learning experiences on searching responses and sex ratio allocations of the gregarious insect parasitoid, Cotesia congregata (Say) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
Journal of Insect Behavior (2008) 21, 34-45
Amanda J. Lentz and Karen M. Kester (2008)
Postemergence experience affects sex ratio allocation in a gregarious insect parasitoid
Journal of Insect Science (2007) 7 (16), 12-13
Karen Kester, Amanda Lentz and Bonnie Brown (2007)
Local adaptation and beyond: What does learning have to do with it?
XIV International Entomophagous Insects Workshop - Jun. 11-15, 2006, Newark, Delaware, U.S.A.
Journal of Insect Science (2003) 3 (33), p. 13 (Kester et al.)
Karen M. Kester, M. Kathleene Jensen, Alexandra Sledd and Bonnie L. Brown (2003)
Microsatellites illustrate tritrophic relationships of the parasitoid, Cotesia congregata (Say) [Hymenoptera: Braconidae]
XIII International Entomophagous Insects Workshop - July 27-31, 2003, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.
Molecular Ecology Notes (2002) 2, 346-348
M. Kathleene Jensen, Karen M. Kester, Maaria Kankare and Bonnie L. Brown (2002)
Characterization of microsatellite loci in the parasitoid, Cotesia congregata (Say) (Hymenoptera Braconidae)
Chemoecology (2002) 12, 1-10
Karen M. Kester, Steven C. Peterson, Frank Hanson, D. Michael Jackson and R.F. Severson (2002)
The roles of nicotine and natural enemies in determining larval feeding site distributions of Manduca sexta L. and Manduca quinquemaculata (Haworth) on tobacco
Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata (1996) 81, 271-276
Karen M. Kester and D. Michael Jackson (1996)
When good bugs go bad: intraguild predation by Jalysus wickhami on the parasitoid, Cotesia congregata
Journal of Economic Entomology (1994) 87, 134-143
R.E. Webb, M. Shapiro, J.D. Podgwaite, R.L. Ridgway, L. Venables, G.B. White, R.J. Argauer, D.L. Cohen, J. Witcosky, K.M. Kester and K.W. Thorpe (1994)
Effect of optical brighteners on the efficacy of gypsy moth (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae) nuclear polyhedrosis virus in forest plots with high or low levels of natural virus
Environmental Entomology (1984) 13, 1208-1215
K.M. Kester, C.M. Smith and D. Frank Gilman (1984)
Mechanisms of resistance in soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merrill) genotype PI171444 to the southern green stink bug, Nezara viridula (L.) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)