Yeast biota of the red imported fire ant

Mycological Research

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 740-746

  Ba, Amadou S ^a   Phillips Jr , Sherman A ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANDIDA; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA RUGOSA; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; DEBARYOMYCES; DEBARYOMYCES HANSENII VAR. HANSENII; FORMICIDAE; MICROBIOTA; SOLENOPSIS; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA; YARROWIA LIPOLYTICA; CANDIDA GUILLERMONDII; CANDIDA LIPOLYTICA; DEBARYOMYCES HANSENII HANSENII; HYMENOPTERA;

INTRODUCED ANT; RED IMPORTED FIRE ANT;

EID: 0030485256     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0953-7562(96)80208-5     Document Type: Article

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