Life table assay of field-caught mediterranean fruit flies, ceratitis capitata, reveals age bias

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 172-181

  Kouloussis, Nikos A ^a   Papadopoulos, Nikos T ^b   Müller, Hans Georg ^c   Wang, Jane Ling ^c   Mao, Meng ^c   Katsoyannos, Byron I ^a   Duyck, Pierre François ^c,d,e   Carey, James R ^c,f  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^e CIRAD   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Age structure; Captive cohort; Diptera; Field demography; Residual life span; Sampling bias; Tephritidae

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGE STRUCTURE; ATTRACTANT; BAIT; BIOASSAY; FIELD METHOD; FLY; LIFE TABLE; MORTALITY; PROBABILITY; SURVIVAL; TESTING METHOD; TRAP (EQUIPMENT);

CERATITIS CAPITATA; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; TEPHRITIDAE;

EID: 67749106573     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2009.00879.x     Document Type: Article

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