Sexual performance of mass reared and wild Mediterranean fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) from various origins of the Madeira Islands

Florida Entomologist

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 10-14

  Pereira, Rui ^a   Silva, Natalia ^a   Quintal, Celio ^a   Abreu, Ruben ^a   Andrade, Jordan ^a   Dantas, Luis ^a  

^a Programa Madeira Med   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Ceratitis capitata; Madeira; Medfly domestication; Medfly origin; Proportion of mating; Sexual success

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE ABILITY; FLY; INTERSEXUAL INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PEST CONTROL; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; STERILE RELEASE METHOD; WILD POPULATION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; MADEIRA; PORTO SANTO; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CERATITIS CAPITATA; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; TEPHRITIDAE;

EID: 34147163571     PISSN: 00154040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1653/0015-4040(2007)90[10:SPOMRA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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