Distribution of abundance and genome size variability in the grain beetle oryzaephilus surinamensis (linnaeus, 1758) (coleoptera: silvanidae)

Zoology in the Middle East

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 79-90

  Sharaf, Kamal ^a   Pavlíček, Tomáš ^a   Nevo, Eviatar ^a   Bureš, Petr ^b   Horová, Lucie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

2C value; Abundance; Evolution Canyon; Genome size; Israel; Oryzaephilus surinamensis; Quercus

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEETLE; GENOME; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

CERATONIA SILIQUA; COLEOPTERA; CYCLAMEN; CYCLAMEN PERSICUM; LOTUS PEREGRINUS; ORYZAEPHILUS; ORYZAEPHILUS SURINAMENSIS; QUERCUS; QUERCUS CALLIPRINOS; SILVANIDAE;

EID: 58249118871     PISSN: 09397140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2008.10638310     Document Type: Article

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