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标题：Observing the devastating coffee berry borer (Hypothenemus hampei) inside the coffee berry using micro-computed tomography
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作者：Ignacio Alba-Alejandre ; Javier Alba-Tercedor ; Fernando E. Vega 等
期刊名称：Scientific Reports
电子版ISSN：2045-2322
出版年度：2018
卷号：8
期号：1
页码：17033
DOI：10.1038/s41598-018-35324-4
语种：English
出版社：Springer Nature
摘要：The coffee berry borer is the most devastating insect pest of coffee throughout the world. The insect spends most of its life cycle inside the coffee berry, which makes it quite difficult to observe its behaviour. Micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) was used to observe all developmental stages of the coffee berry borer inside coffee berries (Coffea canephora). An interesting oviposition pattern involving a sequential placement of eggs starting in the periphery of the seed and moving inwards was observed. Micro-CT should be useful in elucidating unknown life history aspects of other seed-feeding bark beetles as well as of bark and ambrosia beetles in general.