Impacts of genetically engineered crops on non-target herbivores: Bt -corn and monarch butterflies as a case study

Genetically Engineered Organisms: Assessing Environmental and Human Health Effects

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 143-165

  Losey, John E ^a   Obrycki, John J ^b   Hufbauer, Ruth A ^c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

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EID: 0008683540     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9781420042030     Document Type: Chapter

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