Cuticular hydrocarbons of the flea beetles, Aphthona lacertosa and Aphthona nigriscutis, biocontrol agents for leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 337-350

  Nelson, Dennis R ^a   Olson, Denise L ^b   Fatland, Charlotte L ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphthona; Cuticular lipids; Flea beetle; Gas chromatography; Hydrocarbons; Insects; Lacertosa; Leafy spurge; Mass spectrometry; Methylalkanes; Nigriscutis

Indexed keywords

ALKADIENE; ALKANE; ALKANE DERIVATIVE; ALKENE; ESTER DERIVATIVE; HYDROCARBON; LEUCINE; METHYLALKANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LIPID;

ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; EUPHORBIA; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CHEMISTRY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

ALTICINI; APHTHONA; COLEOPTERA; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIA ESULA; EUPHORBIACEAE; HEXAPODA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

ALKANES; ALKENES; ANIMALS; BEETLES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HYDROCARBONS; LIPIDS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0036848355     PISSN: 10964959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1096-4959(02)00161-6     Document Type: Article

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