Host acceptance by aphids: Probing and larviposition behaviour of the bird cherry-oat aphid, Rhopalosiphum padi on host and non-host plants

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 660-668

  Nam, Ki Jung ^a   Hardie, Jim ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electrical penetration graph (EPG); Parturition; Phloem contact; Simultaneous video monitoring

Indexed keywords

APHID; FRUIT; GRAPHICAL METHOD; GRASS; HOST PLANT; MONITORING SYSTEM; PARTURITION; PHLOEM; REPRODUCTION; VIDEOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; APHID; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HORDEUM; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRUNUS;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HORDEUM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; PRUNUS; WING;

APHIDIDAE; AVES; HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE; PRUNUS; PRUNUS PADUS; RHOPALOSIPHUM PADI;

EID: 84859564427     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2012.01.017     Document Type: Article

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