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Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 159478, 9 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/159478
Research Article

Extremely Long-Closed Galls of a Social Aphid

Utako Kurosu1 and Shigeyuki Aoki2

1Faculty of Economics, Chuo University, 742-1 Higashinakano, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0393, Japan
2Faculty of Economics, Rissho University, Osaki 4-2-16, Tokyo 141-8602, Japan

Received 10 December 2008; Accepted 18 June 2009

Academic Editor: James Traniello

Copyright © 2009 Utako Kurosu and Shigeyuki Aoki. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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