Comparative fatty acid composition and metabolism in larvae of the red and of the gray sunflower seed weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 160-176

  Vick, Brady A ^a   Charlet, Laurence D ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

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