Key aspects of the biology of snail-killing sciomyzidae flies

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 57, Issue , 2012, Pages 425-447

  Murphy, William L ^a   Knutson, Lloyd V ^b   Chapman, Eric G ^c   Mc Donnell, Rory J ^d   Williams, Christopher D ^e   Foote, Benjamin A ^f   Vala, Jean Claude ^g  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b University of Kentucky ^*  (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^f KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

Author keywords

Biocontrol; Diptera; Ecology; Mollusca; Phylogenetics; Systematics; Zoogeography

Indexed keywords

EID: 83455231508     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-120710-100702     Document Type: Article

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