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Introgression between divergent corn borer species in a region of sympatry: Implications on the evolution and adaptation of pest arthropods.
Molecular ecology - 1 Dec 2017
Wang Yangzhou, Kim Kyung Seok, Guo Wenchao, Li Qiyun, Zhang Yunyue, Wang Zhenying, Coates Brad S
Abstract excerpt
The Asian corn borer, Ostrinia furnacalis, and European corn borer, O. nubilalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), cause damage to cultivated maize in spatially distinct geographies and have evolved divergent hydrocarbons as the basis of sexual communication. The Yili area of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China represents the only known region where O. furnacalis has invaded a native O. nubilalis range, and these...
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