A galling aphid furnishes its home with a built-in pipeline to the host food supply

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 183-186

  Wool, David ^a   Aloni, Roni ^a   Ben Zvi, Ofra ^a   Wollberg, Miriam ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aphids; Galls; Geoica wertheimae; Pistacia; Tissue organisation

Indexed keywords

HABITAT;

GALL; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION;

ANACARDIACEAE; ANIMALIA; APHIDIDAE; APHIDOIDEA; GEOICA; GEOICA WERTHEIMAE; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HOMOPTERA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; PEMPHIGIDAE; PEMPHIGINAE; PISTACIA; PISTACIA PALAESTINA; PISTACIA VERA;

EID: 0032835858     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.1999.00482.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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