The predatory mite Metaseiulus occidentalis: Mitey small and mitey large genomes

BioEssays

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 581-590

  Hoy, Marjorie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic improvement; Mitochondrial genome; Nuclear genome analysis; Parahaploidy; Phytoseiidae

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT DNA;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 3; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; HAPLOIDY; INBREEDING; INSECT GENOME; METASEIULUS OCCIDENTALIS; MITE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; SYMBIONT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PREDATION; SYMBIOSIS;

ACARI; ARTHROPODA; CHELICERATA; METASEIULUS OCCIDENTALIS; PHYTOSEIIDAE;

ANIMALS; DNA, RECOMBINANT; FEMALE; GENOME; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MITES; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 66449110243     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.200800175     Document Type: Article

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