Microbial diversity of aerobic heterotrophic bacteria inside the foregut of two tyrphophilous water beetle species (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

Microbiological Research

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 57-64

  Schaaf, O ^a   Dettner, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dytiscidae; eutrophic and facultatively oligotrophic bacteria; foregut microflora; numerical taxonomy

Indexed keywords

AGABUS AFFINIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLEOPTERA; DYTISCIDAE; HYDROPORUS MELANARIUS;

EID: 0031002020     PISSN: 09445013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0944-5013(97)80024-9     Document Type: Article

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