Host-plant specificity and specialization in eriophyoid mites and their importance for the use of eriophyoid mites as biocontrol agents of weeds

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 93-113

  Skoracka, Anna ^a   Smith, Lincoln ^b   Oldfield, George ^c   Cristofaro, Massimo ^d   Amrine, James W ^e  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b WESTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^d ENEA C R CASACCIA   (Italy)

^e WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Eriophyoidea; Generalists; Host plants; Host ranges; Specialists

Indexed keywords

BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; COEVOLUTION; GENERALIST; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HOST PLANT; HOST RANGE; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MITE; SPECIALIST; WEED CONTROL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; DATA BASE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; MITE; PARASITOLOGY; PLANT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; DATABASES AS TOPIC; MITES; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ACARI; DIPTILOMIOPIDAE; ERIOPHYOIDEA; PHYTOPTIDAE;

EID: 77950690446     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-009-9323-6     Document Type: Article

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