Effects of Cry1Ab-expressing corn anthers on monarch butterfly larvae

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1109-1115

  Anderson, Patricia L ^a   Hellmich, Richard L ^a   Sears, Mark K ^b   Sumerford, Douglas V ^a   Lewis, Leslie C ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Danaus plexippus; Nontargets; Risk assessment; Transgenic corn

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MAIZE; NONTARGET ORGANISM; POLLEN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

IOWA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ASCLEPIAS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; DANAUS PLEXIPPUS; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; PLEXIPPUS; ZEA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 4344657294     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-33.4.1109     Document Type: Article

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