Heat Stress Impedes Development and Lowers Fecundity of the Brown Planthopper Nilaparvata lugens (Stål)

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Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Piyaphongkul, Jiranan ^a   Pritchard, Jeremy ^a   Bale, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTHROPOD LIFE CYCLE STAGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HEAT STRESS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; LONGEVITY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MATING SUCCESS; NILAPARVATA LUGENS; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PLANTHOPPER; PROGENY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEMIPTERA; HOT TEMPERATURE; LONGEVITY; MALE; NYMPH; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84867430888     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047413     Document Type: Article

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