Summer diapause in insects.
Author of the article: LIU Zhu-Dong,WU Kun-Jun,GONG Pei-Yu
Author's Workplace：(Institute of Zoology,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080,China)
Key Words：summer diapause;environmental factors;ecological characteristics;adaptive significance
Abstract：Summer diapause in insects has intrigued the interest of entomologists all over the world for long period of time.The progress of researches in this field is reviewed,with emphasis on environmental factors governing summer diapause,its ecological characte