The surface wax composition of the exuviae and adults of Aleyrodes singularis

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 655-665

  Nelson, Dennis R ^a   Guershon, Moshe ^b   Gerling, Dan ^b  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fatty acids; Homoptera; Hydrocarbons; Insects; Long chain alcohols; Long chain aldehydes; Wax esters; Whitefly

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; ALDEHYDE; FATTY ACID; HYDROCARBON; WAX;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INSECT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ALEYRODES; ALEYRODIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0031846392     PISSN: 03050491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0491(98)00041-8     Document Type: Article

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