Impact of consuming tall fescue leaves with the endophytic fungus, Acremonium coenophialum, on meadow voles

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 457-463

  Conover, Michael R ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acremonium coenophialum; Endophytic fungus; Festuca arundinacea; Meadow voles; Microtus pennsylvanicus

Indexed keywords

FESTUCA; FUNGI; MICROTUS PENNSYLVANICUS; MURIDAE; NEOTYPHODIUM COENOPHIALUM; SCHEDONORUS ARUNDINACEUS;

EID: 0000950525     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1382976     Document Type: Article

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