The effect of plant identity and the level of plant decay on molecular gut content analysis in a herbivorous soil insect

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 75-83

  Wallinger, Corinna ^a   Staudacher, Karin ^a   Schallhart, Nikolaus ^a   Peter, Eva ^a   Dresch, Philipp ^a   Juen, Anita ^a   Traugott, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Agriotes; Click beetle; Feeding experiment; TrnL; Wireworm

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETICS; GERMANY; HERBIVORY; LARVA; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STOMACH JUICE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; ELECTROPHORESIS; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; GERMANY; HERBIVORY; LARVA; PLANT ROOTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AGRIOTES; ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; ELATERIDAE; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84870948499     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12032     Document Type: Article

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