Marking with pigments for identification of flies in experimental populations of Megaselia scalaris Loew

The insect marking technique of Tadei & Mourão (1976) is until now the only experimental method allowing real-age determination of each individual in a population and, consequently, determination of age structure in a given population. We propose an improvement of this technique, used here to de...

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Main Authors: A. J. Manzato, W. J. Tadei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Internacional de Ecologia
Series:Brazilian Journal of Biology
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