Comparative study on the susceptibility of cutworms (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) to Agrotis segetum nucleopolyhedrovirus and Agrotis ipsilon nucleopolyhedrovirus

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 75-82

  El Salamouny, Said ^a,b,c   Lange, Martin ^a   Jutzi, Manfred ^a   Huber, Jürg ^c   Jehle, Johannes A ^a  

^a State Educ Res Ctr Agric V   (Germany)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agrotis ipsilon; Agrotis ipsilon nucleopolyhedrovirus; Agrotis segetum; Agrotis segetum nucleopolyhedrovirus; Biological control; Cross transmission; Phylogeny; Polyhedrin sequence

Indexed keywords

AGROTIS; AGROTIS IPSILON; AGROTIS IPSILON NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; AGROTIS SEGETUM; AGROTIS SEGETUM NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; SPODOPTERA EXIGUA; SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA; SPODOPTERA LITTORALIS;

EID: 0344098923     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2003.08.005     Document Type: Article

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