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SUBMITTER: Saurav GK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4984442 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Saurav Gunjan Kumar GK Daimei Guisuibou G Rana Vipin Singh VS Popli Sonam S Rajagopal Raman R
Indian journal of microbiology 20160213 2
Thrips palmi Karny is a globally distributed polyphagous agricultural pest. It causes huge economic loss by its biological behaviors like feeding, reproduction and transmission of tospoviruses. Since T. palmi shows close morphological similarities with other thrips species, we employed mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase 1 (mtCO1) gene as a molecular marker. BLAST analysis of this sequence helped us to identify the collected specimen as T. palmi. We observed the female to male ratio of about 3:1 fr ...[more]