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Genetic differentiation among Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) populations living on different host plants.
Environmental entomology - 1 Jun 2010
Rosas-García Ninfa M, Sarmiento-Benavides Sandra L, Villegas-Mendoza Jesús M, Hernández-Delgado Sanjuana, Mayek-Pérez Netzahualcoyotl
Abstract excerpt
The pink hibiscus mealybug Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green) is a dangerous pest that damages a wide variety of agricultural, horticultural, and forestry crops. Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) fingerprints were used to characterize the genetic variation of 11 M. hirsutus populations infesting three plant species in Nayarit, Mexico. Analysis was carried out using four primers combinations, producing...
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