Molecular identification of the scutellerid bug Scutellera nobilis (fabricius) (hemiptera: pentatomoidae) for biodiversity studies

Author(s): Bincy Babu, Ananthi Rachel Livingstone

Abstract

The present study was to identify the pest of biodiesel plant (Jatropha curcas), Scutellera nobilis and substantiating it through molecular studies, phylogenetic relationship and the evolutionary sequence divergence among the closely related individuals belonging to the Super family Pentatomoidea. The computed evolutionary sequence divergence is <0.35 within the COI gene sequences and concludes that Cytochrome Oxidase I gene sequence can potentially serve as a barcode data in the species identification among the studied group

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