Biotic and abiotic factors influencing growth rate and production of traps by the nematode-trapping fungus Duddingtonia flagrans when induced by Cooperia oncophora larvae

Journal of Helminthology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 129-136

  Gronvold J ^a   Wolstrup, J ^a   Nansen, P ^a   Larsen, M ^a   Henriksen, S A ^b   Bjorn H ^b   Kirchheiner, K ^a   Lassen, K ^a   Rawat, H ^a   Kristiansen, H L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; COOPERIA ONCOPHORA; DUDDINGTONIA; FECES; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GROWTH RATE; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PH; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0033060692     PISSN: 0022149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0022149x99000190     Document Type: Article

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