Effect of temperature and termite starvation on phagocytosis by protozoan symbionts of the Eastern subterranean termite Reticulitermes flavipes Kollar

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 175-180

  Belitz, L A ^a   Waller, D A ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MICROBE INTERACTION; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELLULOSE; ECOLOGY; MICROBE METABOLISM; MICROBIAL FUNCTION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SYMBIOSIS;

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOST; PROTOZOA; STARVATION; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE;

DINENYMPHA FIMBRIATA; DINENYMPHA GRACILIS; ISOPTERA; PYRSONYMPHA VERTENS; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES; RHINOTERMITIDAE; TRICHONYMPHA AGILIS;

EID: 0031880908     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002489900104     Document Type: Article

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