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Genetic Structure of Water Chestnut Beetle: Providing Evidence for Origin of Water Chestnut.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Tang Xiao-Tian, Zheng Fu-Shan, Qin Jing, Lu Ming-Xing, Du Yu-Zhou
Abstract excerpt
Water chestnut beetle (Galerucella birmanica Jacoby) is a pest of the water chestnut (Trapa natans L.). To analyze the phylogeny and biogeography of the beetle and provide evidence for the origin of T. natans in China, we conducted this by using three mitochondrial genes (COI, COII and Cytb) and nuclear ITS2 ribosomal DNA of G. birmanica. As for mtDNA genes, the beetle could be subdivided into three groups:...
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