Multiple Transatlantic Introductions of the Western Corn Rootworm

Authors

Nicholas Miller, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Arnaud Estoup, Centre de Biologie et de Gestion des Populations
Stefan Toepfer, CABI Bioscience, Switzerland Centre Field Laboratories
Denis Bourguet, Centre de Biologie et de Gestion des Populations
Laurent Lapchin, Institute National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)–Université de Nice
Sylvie Derridj, UMR 1272 INRA, Route de St Cyr, Versailles, France
Kyung Seok Kim, USDA ARS Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit Genetics Laboratory, Iowa State University
Philippe Reynaud, Laboratoire National de la Protection des Végétaux Montpellier, France.
Lorenzo Furlan, Dipartimento di Agronomia Ambientale e Produzioni Vegetali, Agripolis, Legnaro (Padova), Italy
Thomas Guillemaud, INRA - Université de Nice–Sophia AntipolisFollow

ORCID IDs

Nicholas Miller

Date of this Version

2005

Comments

Published in Science 310 (Nov. 11, 2005), p. 992.

Includes Supporting Material

Abstract

Prevention of biological invasions, as opposed to remedial eradication of invasive species, represents the most cost-effective and perhaps only hope for stemming the current homogenization of the world's biota (1). Here we describe the introduction routes into Europe of the western corn rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera, WCR), the most destructive pest of corn in the United States. Armed with this knowledge, it will be possible to better gauge the prevention strategies that might be adopted