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Origin of Pest Lineages of the Colorado Potato Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae).
Journal of economic entomology - 2 Apr 2018
Izzo Victor M, Chen Yolanda H, Schoville Sean D, Wang Cong, Hawthorne David J
Abstract excerpt
Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata Say [Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae]) is a pest of potato throughout the Northern Hemisphere, but little is known about the beetle's origins as a pest. We sampled the beetle from uncultivated Solanum host plants in Mexico, and from pest and non-pest populations in the United States and used mitochondrial DNA and nuclear loci to examine three hypotheses on the origin of...
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