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Whitefly secrets to success: how to become one of the world's top invasive species
November 20th, 2007
A population of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci has become one of the world’s worst invasive pests – devastating many crops in China and elsewhere in the process – through mating behaviors that help it invade the territory of native whitefly populations, according to a new study conducted in China and Australia. These findings will be published online by the journal Science, at the Science Express website, on 8 November, 2007. Science is published by AAAS, the nonprofit science society. The researchers report that the invasive whiteflies are successful at least in part because they breed more when they come into contact with native whiteflies, and they...
Source: Science Letter (2007-11-20)
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