Choice versus no-choice test interpretation and the role of biology and behavior in parasitoid host specificity tests

Biological Control

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 153-159

  Murray, Tara J ^a,b   Withers, Toni M ^a   Mansfield, Sarah ^c  

^a SCION   (New Zealand)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biological control agent; Dicranosterna semipunctata; Enoggera nassaui; Neopolycystus insectifurax; Non target effects; Parasitoid sex ratios; Paropsis charybdis; Trachymela catenata; Trachymela sloanei

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; ENOGGERA NASSAUI; NEOPOLYCYSTUS INSECTIFURAX; PAROPSIS; PTEROMALIDAE; TRACHYMELA;

EID: 71649106571     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2009.10.003     Document Type: Article

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