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From: The greening-causing agent alters the behavioral and electrophysiological responses of the Asian citrus psyllid to a putative sex pheromone

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ACP male to female ratio in an experimental organic plot in Mogi Mirim, São Paulo State, Brazil, in 2020. Twenty-five data points were collected from February to December 2020 in Mogi Mirim. Twenty adults per plant were aspirated one by one from five plants sampled within the experimental area for each data point (of 100 adults). In the laboratory, adults were sexed, and the male/female ratios were recorded. The dotted line marks an equal number of males and females. Out of 125 samples (from a 25-day collection), only 20 showed a high male ratio (male/female ratio above 1). By contrast, 93 data points are below the dotted line, thus indicating a high female proportion. The overall mean suggests that the sex ratio was biased throughout the season toward females.

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