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We thank Yonghong Pang for her assistance in this work. We are grateful to Dr Thomas Phillips of Kansas State University, USA; Dr Changlu Wang of Rutgers University, USA; and anonymous reviewer for their comments that greatly improved the manuscript. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31172159), the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars of State Education Ministry and the Priority Academic Programme Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions.
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MING, Q., WANG, A. & CHENG, C. Molecular identification of Tribolium castaneum and T. confusum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) using PCR-RFLP analysis. J Genet 94 (Suppl 1), 17–21 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12041-014-0346-3
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