Effect of Naphthalene, Butylated Hydroxytoluene, Dioctyl Phthalate, and Adipic Dioctyl Ester, Chemicals Found in the Nests of the Formosan Subterranean Termite (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) on a Saprophytic Mucor sp. (Zygomycetes: Mucorales)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 936-940

  Wiltz, Beverly A ^a   Henderson, Gregg ^a   Chen, Jian ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coptotermes formosanus; Defense; Fumigation; Fungus

Indexed keywords

COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; FUNGI; ISOPTERA; MUCOR; MUCORALES; RHINOTERMITIDAE; ZYGOMYCETES;

EID: 0001292145     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/27.4.936     Document Type: Article

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