Isolation, Inoculation to Insect Host, and Molecular Phylogeny of an Entomogenous FungusPaecilomyces tenuipes

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 203-208

  Fukatsu, Takema ^a   Sato, Hiroki ^b   Kuriyama, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Paecilomyces tenuipes; Isaria japonica; Cordycepssp; Galleria mellonella; parasitic fungus; isolation; inoculation to insect host; 18S rDNA; molecular phylogeny

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; LEPIDOPTERA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LEPIDOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0031278864     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jipa.1997.4696     Document Type: Article

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