Components of Competitiveness in Sterile Male Boll Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 631-636

  Villavaso, E J ^a   Mcgovern, W L ^a   Wagner, T L ^a   Willers, J L ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthonomus grandis; Field release; Irradiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011067385     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jee/91.3.631     Document Type: Article

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