期刊论文

Wang, CZ;van Loon, JJA

英文

Insects

2075-4450

2022

13

1

10.3390/insects13010021

Funding: This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Number 31830088 to C.-Z.W.; Grant Number 31201750 to D.-S.Z.), the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW; Grant Number 05PhD04 to D.-S.Z.) and Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department (Grant Number 19C0294 to D.-S.Z.).

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