Molecular tool for identification of closely related species of Trichogramma (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae): T. rojasi nagaraja & nagarkatti and T. lasallei pinto

Neotropical Entomology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 575-578

  Ciociola Jr , Américo I ^a   Querino, Ranyse B ^a   Zucchi, Roberto A ^a   Stouthamer, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biological control; Insecta; ITS2 region; Parasitoids; rDNA

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745209977     PISSN: 1519556X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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