Heritability Estimates of Development Time and Size Characters in the Gypsy Moth (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae) Parasitoid Cotesia melanoscela (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 415-418

  Chenot, Amy B ^a   Raffa, Kenneth F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Cotesia melanoscela; Heritability indices; Hymenoptera; Lymantria dispar; Parasitoid

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001068022     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/27.2.415     Document Type: Article

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