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EFFECTS OF LARVAL AGE ON SUSCEPTIBILITY OF SPODOPTERA LITURA (LEPIDOPTERA: NOCTUIDAE) TO SPODOPTERA LITURA MULTIPLE NUCLEAR POLYHEDROSIS VIRUS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

M.D. Monobrullah  and
Masao Nagata
M.D. Monobrullah*
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi 1-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113- 8657, Japan
Masao Nagata
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi 1-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113- 8657, Japan
*
1 Author to whom all corresponding should be addressed (E-mail: [email protected]).
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Susceptibility of many insects to baculoviruses decreases with host development (Hochberg 1991), whereas the time required for infected hosts to die increases with larval age (Boucias et al. 1980; Bucher and Turnock 1983; Smits and Vlak 1988). The actual mechanism of this phenomenon, however, has not been established in many cases. The present study was undertaken to investigate the effect of larval age on the susceptibility of Spodoptera litura Fabricius to nuclear polyhedrosis virus (NPV) through oral and intrahaemocoelic routes of infection.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 132 , Issue 3 , June 2000 , pp. 337 - 340
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 2000

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