Mites, nematodes and the multimillion dollar weevil

Autor:	G. W. Krantz, G. O. Poinar
Rok vydání:	2004
Předmět:	Crop Proctolaelaps Pollination Inflorescence Weevil Botany Mite Biological dispersal Biology biology.organism_classification Elaeis guineensis Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics
Zdroj:	Journal of Natural History. 38:135-141
ISSN:	1464-5262 0022-2933
DOI:	10.1080/0022293021000041734
Popis:	The African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacquin) is a major plantation crop throughout much of the Old and NewWorld tropics, and its successful pollination is dependent primarily on the flower weevil, Elaeidobius kamerunicus (Faust). Among the several invertebrates found with E. kamerunicus in oil palm flowers are a bacteriophagous nematode and an undescribed mite species of the ascid genus Proctolaelaps. Both utilize E. kamerunicus for dispersal from senescent to newly opened oil palm inflorescences, and Proctolaelaps sp. feeds on the phoretic nematodes during the transfer phase.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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