We thank the Tertiary Education Commission of New Zealand for funding to H.J.P.;Stuart Gilchrist for enabling GBS alignments to the prepublication B.tryoni reference genome.This study was conducted as part of the"Phenology,demography,and distribution of Australia's fruit flies"project,funded through the Strengthening Australia's Fruit Fly System Research Program;Funding for the program is provided by the Australian Government,with contributions matched from state and territory governments.
Bactrocera tryoni and Bactrocera neohumeralis are morphologically similar sibling pest fruit fly species that possess different biological attributes,geographic distributions,and host ranges.The need to differentiate ...
We estimated thermal developmental thresholds(7o)and degree-day(DD)constants for the immature stages of two tephritid pests,Bcictrocera zonata(Saunders)and Ceratitis capitata(Weidenmann).Males of both species were tra...
Accurate species-level identifications underpin many aspects of basic and applied biology;however,identifications can be hampered by a lack of discriminating morphological characters,taxonomic expertise or time.Molecu...
the earmarked fund for the China Agricultural Research System (No. CARS-26);International Atomic Energy Agency's Coordinated Research Project (No. D42016);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31572008);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2014PY005 and 2662015PY129).
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