Discrimination among Japanese species of the Orius flower bugs (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae) based on PCR-RFLP of the nuclear and mitochondrial DNAs

Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 91-95

  Muraji, Masahiko ^a   Kawasaki, Kenjiro ^a   Shimizu, Toru ^a,b   Noda, Takashi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Okinawa Prefectural Plant Protection Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytochrome oxidase subunit I; Internal transcribed spacer 1; Natural enemy; Predatory bugs; Species identification

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCORIDAE; HETEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; ORIUS; ORIUS MINUTUS; ORIUS NAGAII; ORIUS SAUTERI; ORIUS STRIGICOLLIS; ORIUS TANTILLUS; PILOPHORUS WALSHII;

EID: 3242657164     PISSN: 00213551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6090/jarq.38.91     Document Type: Article

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