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Exploring protandry and pupal size selection for Aedes albopictus sex separation

BACKGROUND: We explored the possibility to improve male/female separation (sexing) in Aedes albopictus by selection of two strains, one toward increasing sex dimorphism and another toward increasing protandry. In the laboratory we selected and crossed small males with large females to exploit dimorp...

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Autores principales: Bellini, Romeo, Puggioli, Arianna, Balestrino, Fabrizio, Carrieri, Marco, Urbanelli, Sandra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6304755/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30583737
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-018-3213-x