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Recent Mediterranean fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) infestations in Florida--a genetic perspective.
Journal of economic entomology - 1 Dec 2003
Silva Janisete G, Meixner Marina D, McPheron Bruce A, Steck Gary J, Sheppard Walter S
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Microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variability data were used to study infestations of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) in Florida in 1997 and 1998. A total of 132 flies collected in monitoring traps or as larvae removed from fruit were examined at three polymorphic mtDNA restriction sites and two microsatellite loci. All of the flies sampled in Florida in 1997 displayed the...
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