Yeast community persistence in a spatially structured environment

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 60-65

  Latham, B P ^a,b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Merced College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLUMNAR CACTUS; DROSOPHILA MOJAVENSIS; PERSISTENCE; YEAST;

COMMUNITY PERSISTENCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; VECTOR; YEAST;

DIPTERA; DIPTERAILA MOJAVENS; DROSPHILIDAE; STENOCEREUS GUMMOSUS;

EID: 0031811729     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002489900093     Document Type: Article

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