Development of restriction enzyme analyses to distinguish winter moth from bruce spanworm and hybrids between them

Marinko Sremac; Joseph Elkinton; Adam Porter

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Development of restriction enzyme analyses to distinguish winter moth from bruce spanworm and hybrids between them

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Marinko Sremac, Joseph Elkinton, Adam Porter

Year:

2011

Type:

Other

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: McManus, Katherine A; Gottschalk, Kurt W., eds. 2010. Proceedings. 21st U.S. Department of Agriculture interagency research forum on invasive species 2010; 2010 January 12-15; Annapolis, MD. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-75. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 132.

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Abstract

Elkinton et. al. recently completed a survey of northeastern North America for the newly invasive winter moth, Operophtera brumata L. The survey used traps baited with the winter moth pheromone, which consists of a single compound also used by Bruce spanworm, O. bruceata (Hulst), the North American congener of winter moth. Our traps filled with both species, and they are difficult to tell apart because wing characters are unreliable.

Parent Publication

Proceedings, 21st U.S. Department of Agriculture interagency research forum on invasive species 2010

Citation

Sremac, Marinko; Elkinton, Joseph; Porter, Adam. 2011. Development of restriction enzyme analyses to distinguish winter moth from bruce spanworm and hybrids between them. In: McManus, Katherine A; Gottschalk, Kurt W., eds. 2010. Proceedings. 21st U.S. Department of Agriculture interagency research forum on invasive species 2010; 2010 January 12-15; Annapolis, MD. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-75. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 132.