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The Impact of Environmental Conditions on Efficiency of Host Plant DNA Barcoding for Polyphagous Beetles.

2015

Recently, several papers were published dealing with host plant identification for selected species of insects, including beetles. These studies took advantage of the DNA barcoding approach and generally showed that it is possible to identify diet composition from plant DNA present in insect guts. However, none of these studies considered how the impact of environmental conditions affected the likelihood of insect feeding and, therefore, the presence of host plant DNA that could be amplified and sequenced. In the present study, individuals of the polyphagous weevil Centricnemus leucogrammus (Germar, 1824) (Curculionidae: Entiminae) were used to test the hypothesis that harsh environmental c…

Centricnemus leucogrammusmedia_common.quotation_subjectRainInsectDNA barcodingMolecular ecologyAnimalsHerbivoryWeatherEcology Evolution Behavior and Systematicsmedia_commonCzech RepublicHerbivoreEcologybiologyEcologyWeevilfungiEntiminaefood and beveragesbiology.organism_classificationDroughtsCold TemperatureInsect ScienceCurculionidaeWeevilsPolandSeasonsEnvironmental entomology
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