A molecular phylogenetic study and the use of DNA barcoding to determine its efficacy for identification of economically important scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of South Africa
Ph.D. (Zoology) === Scale insects, plant pests of quarantine importance, with specialised anatomy and unresolved phylogenetic relationships, are responsible for major economic losses to South Africa and its trading partners. These losses may reach critical levels if the pests are not timely identifi...
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10210/11398 |