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THE subject of this communication is the effect of the density of a host population upon the relative success of a searching female parasite. So far as I am aware, this has not received any prior experimental treatment. Smirnov and Wladimirow, as reported by Gause1, have demonstrated a relation between the increase of a parasite population and the concentration of the host, but this is a problem distinct from the present one although similar in nature.
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ULLYETT, G. Host Density and the Success of Entomophagous Parasites. Nature 137, 742–743 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137742b0
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