The involvement of acetylcholinesterase in resistance of the California red scale Aonidiella aurantii to organophosphorus pesticides

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 115-121

  Levitin, Emanuel ^a   Cohen, Ephraim ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acetylcholinesterase; Aonidiella aurantii; Chlorpyrifos; Chlorpyrifos oxon; Mechanism of resistance; Organophosphorus inhibitors; Resistance

Indexed keywords

INSECT; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PESTICIDE RESISTANCE;

ISRAEL;

AONIDIELLA AURANTII; CITRUS; DIASPIDIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HOMOPTERA; INSECTA;

EID: 0031710675     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.1998.00353.x     Document Type: Article

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