Behavioral monitoring of Microplitis croceipes, a parasitoid wasp, for detecting target odorants using a computer vision system

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1843-1849

  Utley, Samuel Lathrop ^a,c   Rains, Glen Christopher ^a   Lewis, Wallace Joe ^b  

^a University of Georgia   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

3 octanone; Biological sensor; LabView; Machine vision; Visual cortex; Volatile chemical detection

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSORS; COMPUTER VISION;

3-OCTANONE; VISUAL CORTEX; VOLATILE CHEMICAL DETECTION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COMPUTER VISION; ODOR; OLFACTION; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PARASITOID; SOFTWARE; WASP;

BRACONIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; MICROPLITIS CROCEIPES;

EID: 36248968817     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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