Variation in total and differential haemocyte count of Busseola fusca (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) parasitized by two biotypes of Cotesia sesamiae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and larval growth responses

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 247-255

  Mochiah, Moses B ^a   Ngi Song, Adele J ^a   Overholt, William A ^a   Botchey, Mary ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Cotesia sesamiae; Granulocytes; Hemocytes; Parasitism; Plasmatocytes

Indexed keywords

GROWTH RESPONSE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LARVA; PARASITISM;

KENYA;

BRACONIDAE; BUSSEOLA FUSCA; COTESIA; COTESIA FLAVIPES; COTESIA SESAMIAE; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE;

EID: 0037399143     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-32.2.247     Document Type: Article

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