Progeny fitness determines the performance of the parasitoid Therophilus javanus, a prospective biocontrol agent against the legume pod borer

Abstract Therophilus javanus (Bhat & Gupta) is an exotic larval endoparasitoid newly imported from Asia into Africa as a classical biological control agent against the pod borer Maruca vitrata (Fabricius). The parasitoid preference for the five larval instars of M. vitrata and their influence on...

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Main Authors: Djibril Aboubakar Souna, Aimé Hippolyte Bokonon-Ganta, Marc Ravallec, Mesmin Alizannon, Ramasamy Srinivasan, Barry Robert Pittendrigh, Anne-Nathalie Volkoff, Manuele Tamò
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Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/f07b52aa6bfa4b04a28637e93c5abcba
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