The integrative taxonomic approach reveals host specific species in an encyrtid parasitoid species complex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Chesters, Douglas ^a   Wang, Ying ^a,b   Yu, Fang ^a   Bai, Ming ^a   Zhang, Tong Xin ^c   Hu, Hao Yuan ^d   Zhu, Chao Dong ^a   Li, Cheng De ^b   Zhang, Yan Zhou ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b NORTHEAST FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Ningbo Technology Extension Center for Forestry and Specialty Forest Products   (China)

^d ANHUI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; CHINA; DNA BARCODING; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENCYRTUS SASAKII; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GEOGRAPHY; HOST RANGE; HYMENOPTERA; MATING; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PARASITOID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TAXONOMY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PHYLOGENY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; WASP;

CHALCIDOIDEA; ENCYRTIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; FEMALE; GENETIC LOCI; HAPLOTYPES; HOST SPECIFICITY; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARASITES; PHYLOGENY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; WASPS;

EID: 84861617948     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037655     Document Type: Article

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