Quantitative impact of mating duration on reproduction and offspring sex ratio of Phytoseiulus persimilis (Acari: Phytoseiidae)

Phytoseiulus persimilis is an important biological control agent, commercially produced worldwide. To increase understandings of its reproduction, herein we provided quantitative descriptions of the inflation and deflation of its spermathecae as a function of time and copulation duration, and the qu...

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Main Authors: Jia-le LÜ, Bao-he ZHANG, Xiao-huan JIANG, En-dong WANG, Xue-nong XU
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-04-01
Series:Journal of Integrative Agriculture
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095311918619744