Article
Identification of a whitefly species by genomic and behavioral studies.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Jan 1993
Perring T M, Cooper A D, Rodriguez R J, Farrar C A, Bellows T S
Abstract excerpt
An introduced whitefly species, responsible for over a half billion dollars in damage to U.S. agricultural production in 1991, is morphologically indistinguishable from Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius). However, with the use of polymerase chain reaction-based DNA differentiation tests, allozymic freque...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Crosses, Genetic
- DNA
- Diptera
- Enzymes
- Female
- Genetic Linkage
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Oligodeoxyribonucleotides
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
