Growth rate and trapping efficacy of nematode-trapping fungi under constant and fluctuating temperatures

Parasitology Research

Volumn 85, Issue 8-9, 1999, Pages 661-668

  Fernandez A S ^a,b   Larsen, M ^a   Wolstrup, J ^a   Gronvold J ^a   Nansen, P ^a   Bjorn H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CELL KILLING; FECES CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GROWTH RATE; INOCULATION; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CULTURE MEDIA; FECES; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; NEMATODA; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032977140     PISSN: 00443255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004360050611     Document Type: Article

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