The influence of time and temperature on molecular gut content analysis: Adalia bipunctata fed with rhopalosiphum padi

Insect Science

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 353-358

  Millan, Stuart M C ^a   Kuusk, Anna Karin ^a   Cassel, Anna ^a   Gen, Lundha ^a   Ekbom, Barbara ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adalia bipunctata; Aphidophagous predator; Gut content analysis; PCR; Prey DNA detection success; Rhopalosiphum padi

Indexed keywords

ADALIA BIPUNCTATA; APHIDIDAE; ARTHROPODA; AVES; RHOPALOSIPHUM PADI;

EID: 38849138842     PISSN: 16729609     EISSN: 17447917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7917.2007.00161.x     Document Type: Article

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