Effects of male mating interval on spermatophore formation, transfer, and subsequent female receptivity and fecundity in the sorghum plant bug, Stenotus rubrovittatus

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 134-138

  Oku, Keiko ^a   Kitsunezuka, Keiko ^b  

^a NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

^b Miyagi Prefectural Plant Protection Office   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fertility; Heteroptera; Miridae; Poaceae; Setaria italica; Sexual receptivity; Triticum aestivum

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; CROP PEST; FECUNDITY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; MILLET; OVIPOSITION; SORGHUM; SPERMATOPHORE; WHEAT;

HETEROPTERA; MIRIDAE; POACEAE; SETARIA (PLANT); SETARIA ITALICA; STENOTUS RUBROVITTATUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 79960371713     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2011.01142.x     Document Type: Article

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