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Morphological and genetic diversity studies among populations of tea mosquito bug, Helopeltis theivora from Assam, India.
Molecular biology reports - 1 Dec 2014
Bhau Brijmohan Singh, Mech Jiten, Borthakur Sangita, Bhuyan Mantu, Bhattacharyya Pranab Ram
Abstract excerpt
Multilocus DNA fingerprinting and morphometry were compared to evaluate genetic diversity of tea mosquito bug, Helopeltis theivora Waterhouse (Hemiptera: Miridae). Eighty-one female individuals representing 27 populations of H. theivora from tea plantations of different regions of Assam, India were collected and evaluated. Observation of 12 characters i.e. body length, antennae length, head width, stylet length,...
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