Distinct fitness costs associated with the knockdown of RNAi pathway genes in western corn rootworm adults

• Ke Wu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kewu@ufl.edu

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4438-1517

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• Carolina Camargo,

  Roles Investigation

  Current address: Max Planck-Universidad de Antioquia Tándem Group, Mosquito Reproductive Biology, Medellín, Colombia

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Elane Fishilevich,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dow AgroSciences LLC, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Kenneth E. Narva,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dow AgroSciences LLC, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Xiuping Chen,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Caitlin E. Taylor,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Blair D. Siegfried

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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