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George Roderick

George Roderick
University of California Berkeley

Research Interests: Work addresses both basic and applied questions, taking advantage of the opportunities associated with the geography of Pacific Basin, Pacific Islands, and Pacific Rim.

Research docs

classical biological control of the glassy-winged sharpshooter, Homalodisca vitripennis, by the egg parasitoid Gonatocerus ashmeadi in Tahiti and Moorea, French Polynesia

Grandgirard J, Hoddle MS, Petit JN, Roderick GK, Davies N. 2008.

Engineering an invasion: classical biological control of the glassy-winged sharpshooter, Homalodisca vitripennis, by the egg parasitoid Gonatocerus ashmeadi in Tahiti and Moorea, French Polynesia
Glassy-Winged Sharp Shooters

Petit JN, Hoddle MS, Roderick GK, Grandgirard J, Davies N. 2009.

Successful spread of a biocontrol agent reveals a biosecurity failure: elucidating long distance invasion pathways for Gonatocerus ashmeadi in French Polynesia
glassy-winged sharpshooter Biological control of the glassy-winged sharpshooter - Factsheet