Article
Functional haplodiploidy: a mechanism for the spread of insecticide resistance in an important international insect pest.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 10 Oct 1995
Brun L O, Stuart J, Gaudichon V, Aronstein K, French-Constant R H
Abstract excerpt
The coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei, is the most important insect pest of coffee worldwide and has an unusual life history that ensures a high degree of inbreeding. Individual females lay a predominantly female brood within individual coffee berries and because males are flightless there is almost entirely full sib mating. We investigated the genetics associated with this interesting life history after...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Biological Assay
- Chromosomes
- Coffee
- Coleoptera
- Crosses, Genetic
- Diploidy
- Drosophila Proteins
- Endosulfan
