Billions and billions sold: Pet-feeder crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae), commercial cricket farms, an epizootic densovirus, and government regulations make for a potential disaster

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 3504, 2012, Pages 67-88

  Weissman, David B ^a   Gray, David A ^b   Thi Pham, Hanh ^c   Tijssen, Peter ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INRS INSTITUT ARMAND FRAPPIER   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acheta; AdDNV; Bar coding; Commercial cricket breeders; Cryptic species; Densovirus; Field crickets; Gryllodes; Gryllus; Pet food stores; USDA APHIS

Indexed keywords

ACHETA; ACHETA DOMESTICA DENSOVIRUS; ACHETA DOMESTICUS; ANIMALIA; DENSOVIRUS; ENSIFERA (INSECTS); GRYLLIDAE; GRYLLINAE; GRYLLODES; GRYLLODES SIGILLATUS; GRYLLUS; GRYLLUS BIMACULATUS; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 84867053280     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3504.1.3     Document Type: Article

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