Inbreeding and Rotational Breeding of the Parasitoid Fly, Exorista japonica (Diptera: Tachinidae), for Successive Rearing

Applied Entomology and Zoology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 433-441

  Nakamura, Satoshi ^a  

^a JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biological control; Exorista japonica; Inbreeding depression; Laboratory rearing; Tachinidae

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030496740     PISSN: 00036862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1303/aez.31.433     Document Type: Article

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