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What do spring migrants reveal about sex and host selection in the melon aphid?

BACKGROUND: Host plants exert considerable selective pressure on aphids because the plants constitute their feeding, mating and oviposition sites. Therefore, host specialisation in aphids evolves through selection of the behavioural and chemical mechanisms of host-plant location and recognition, and...

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Autores principales: Thomas, Sophie, Boissot, Nathalie, Vanlerberghe-Masutti, Flavie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3368726/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22471629
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-12-47