The legume pod borer, Maruca vitrata, is an endemic insect pest that causes significant yield loss to the cowpea crop in West Africa. The application of population genetic tools is important in the management of insect pests but such data on M. vitrata is lacking. We applied a set of six microsat...
Agunbiade, T.A.
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Coates, B.S.
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Kim, S.K.
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Forgacs, D.
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Margam, V.M.
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Murdock, L.L.
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Ba, Malick N.
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Binso-Dabire, L.
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Baoua, I.
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Ishiyaku, M.
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Tamo, M.
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Pittendrigh, Barry R.
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[The spatial genetic differentiation of the legume pod borer, Maruca vitrata F. (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) populations in West Africa]
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The spatial genetic differentiation of the legume pod borer, Maruca vitrata F. (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) populations in West Africa
Cowpea is a widely cultivated and major nutritional source of protein for many people that live in West Africa. Annual yields and longevity of grain storage is greatly reduced by feeding damage caused by a complex of insect pests that include the pod sucking bugs, Anoplocnemis curvipes Fabricius ...
Agunbiade, T.A.
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Sun, W.
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Coates, B.S.
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Djouaka, R.F.
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Tamo, M.
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Ba, Malick N.
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Binso-Dabire, L.
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Baoua, I.
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Olds, B.P.
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Pittendrigh, Barry R.
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[Development of reference transcriptomes for the major field insect pests of cowpea: a toolbox for insect pest management approaches in West Africa]
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Development of reference transcriptomes for the major field insect pests of cowpea: a toolbox for insect pest management approaches in West Africa
This study compared the efficacy of linguistically and dialectically localized animated educational videos (LAV) against traditional learning extension (TLE) presentations for learning gains of knowledge around agricultural- and healthcare-related topics within a rural population in Benin. While ...
Bello-Bravo, Julia
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Tamo, M.
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Dannon, E.A.
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Pittendrigh, Barry R.
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[An assessment of learning gains from educational animated videos versus traditional extension presentations among farmers in Benin*]
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An assessment of learning gains from educational animated videos versus traditional extension presentations among farmers in Benin*
The complete 16,345-bp mitochondrial genome of the agriculturally destructive pod sucking pest, the giant coreid bug, Anoplocnemis curvipes (Hemiptera: Coreidae), was assembled from paired-end Illumina HiSeq 2500 reads. The A. curvipes mitochondrial genome consists of 13 protein coding genes (PCG...
Valero, M.C.
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Ojo, J.A.
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Sun, W.
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Tamò, M.
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Coates, B.S.
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Pittendrigh, Barry R.
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[The complete mitochondrial genome of Anoplocnemis curvipes F. (Coreinea, Coreidae, Heteroptera), a pest of fresh cowpea pods]
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The complete mitochondrial genome of Anoplocnemis curvipes F. (Coreinea, Coreidae, Heteroptera), a pest of fresh cowpea pods
Wecreated a detailed model of the Maruca vitrata (F.) and cowpea [Vigna unguiculata
(L.) Walp] system to study the possible evolution of resistance by the insect to transgenic insecticidal
cowpea, which is under development. We focused on population dynamics and genetics in a region
of west Afric...
Onstad, D.W.
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Kang, J.
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Ba, Malick N.
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Tamo, M.
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Jackai, L.E.N.
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Dabiré, C.
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Pittendrigh, Barry R.
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[Modeling evolution of resistance by Maruca vitrata (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) to transgenic insecticidal cowpea in Africa]
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Modeling evolution of resistance by Maruca vitrata (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) to transgenic insecticidal cowpea in Africa
Therophilus javanus is a koinobiont, solitary larval endoparasitoid currently being considered as a biological control agent against
the pod borer Maruca vitrata, a devastating cowpea pest causing 20–80% crop losses in West Africa. We investigated ovary
morphology and anatomy, oogenesis, potentia...
Souna, D.A.
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Bokonon-Ganta, A.H.
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Ravallec, M.
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Cusumano, A.
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Pittendrigh, Barry R.
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Volkoff, A.N.
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Tamò, M.
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[An insight in the reproductive biology of Therophilus javanus (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, and Agathidinae), a potential biological control agent against the legume pod borer (Lepidoptera, Crambidae)]
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An insight in the reproductive biology of Therophilus javanus (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, and Agathidinae), a potential biological control agent against the legume pod borer (Lepidoptera, Crambidae)