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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 frequency analyses, crossing experiments, and mating behavior studies, the introduced whitefly is found to be a distinct...
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