Flow cytometric analysis of ploidy levels in two seed-infesting Megastigmus species: Applications to sex ratio and species determination at the larval stage

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 125-131

  Boivin, Thomas ^a   Candau, Jean Noël ^a  

^a French National Institute for Agriculture   (France)

Author keywords

Arrhenotoky; Flow cytometry; Haplodiploidy; Hymenoptera; Invasion; Megastigmus pinsapinis; Megastigmus schimitscheki; Thelytoky; Torymidae

Indexed keywords

FLOW CYTOMETRY; INSECT; PLOIDY; SEED; SEX RATIO;

HYMENOPTERA; MEGASTIGMUS; MEGASTIGMUS PINSAPINIS; MEGASTIGMUS SCHIMITSCHEKI; TORYMIDAE;

EID: 34250669679     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2007.00576.x     Document Type: Article

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