Fate of biological control introductions: Monitoring an Australian fungal pathogen of grasshoppers in North America

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 918-921

  Bidochka, Michael J ^a,d   Walsh, Scott R A ^b   Ramos, Mark E ^c   St Leger, Raymond J ^a   Silver, Julie C ^b   Roberts, Donald W ^a  

^a United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Entomophaga grylli; epizootiology; insect pathology; molecular probes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; FUNGUS CULTURE; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPTERA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; DNA PROBES; DNA, FUNGAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GRASSHOPPERS; INSECT CONTROL; MYCOSES; NORTH AMERICA; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; SPORES, FUNGAL; ZYGOMYCOTA;

EID: 0030034528     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.93.2.918     Document Type: Article

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