Sequestered Cucurbitacins and Pathogenicity of Metarhizium anisopliae (Moniliales: Moniliaceae) on Spotted Cucumber Beetle Eggs and Larvae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 366-372

  Tallamy, Douglas W ^a   Whittington, Daryl P ^a   Defurio, Ferdinand ^a   Fontaine, David A ^a   Gorski, Piotr M ^a   Gothro, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cucurbitacins; Fungal entomopathogen; Metarhizium anisopliae; Rootworm; Spotted cucumber beetle; Tritrophic level interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001202574     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/27.2.366     Document Type: Article

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