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Genetics and Biological Control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

F. J. Simmonds
F. J. Simmonds
Affiliation:
Director, Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control
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Abstract

The possibilities of using genetic principles to improve biotic agents used in biological control are discussed, and a number of examples quoted where possibly useful racial differences between parasites occur.

However, the main conclusion is that in introductions of biotic agents the principal aim should be to have as much genetic variability as possible in the material released, rather than to try and select a priori certain apparently suitable strains.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 95 , Issue 6 , June 1963 , pp. 561 - 567
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1963

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