Electrophoretic study of five aphid parasitoid species of the genus Aphidius (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), including evidence for reproductively isolated sympatric populations and a cryptic species

Bulletin of Entomological Research

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 3-13

  Atanassova, P ^a,b   Brookes, C P ^a   Loxdale, H D ^a   Powell, W ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTIC SPECIES; ELECTROPHORESIS; NETTLE APHID; PARASITOID WASP; PEA APHID; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SYMPATRIC POPULATION;

BULGARIA; UK;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHIDIDAE; APHIDIUS; APHIDIUS EADYI; APHIDIUS ERVI; APHIDIUS MICROLOPHII; APHIDIUS PICIPES; APHIDIUS URTICAE; BRACONIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HOMOPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; MICROLOPHIUM; MICROLOPHIUM CAMOSUM; PISUM SATIVUM; URTICA; URTICAE; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0031881638     PISSN: 00074853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s000748530004150x     Document Type: Article

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