Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1982
Abstract
Dispersal behavior of the southern pine beetle, Dendroctonus frontalis Zimmermann (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), in response to synthetic aggregating pheromone (frontalin) indicates an exponential decrease in response with distance from the site of emergence. Differential response during dispersal among genotypes at a polymorphic esterase locus was found by using starch gel electrophoresis. These differences produced allelic distributions that predict increased genetic diversity concurrent with increasing dispersal distance from the source population.
Repository Citation
Johnson, Paul C.; Coster, Jack E.; and Florence, L. Zack, "Behavioral and Genetic Diversity during Dispersal: Analysis of a Polymorphic Esterase Locus in Southern Pine Beetle, Dendroctonus frontalis" (1982). Faculty Publications. 328.
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/forestry/328
Comments
Posted with permission of the Entomological Society of America