Successful Parasitation of Locusts by Entomopathogenic Nematodes Is Correlated with Inhibition of Insect Phagocytes

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 154-161

  Van Sambeek, Jessica ^a   Wiesner, Andreas ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biological control; Escherichia coli; Inhibition of insect immunity; Insect hemocytes; Insect immunity; Insect pathogenic nematodes; Locusta migratoria; Micrococcus luteus; Phagocytosis; Photorhabdus luminescens; Schistocerca gregaria

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GRASSHOPPER; HEMOLYMPH; IMMUNOLOGY; INSECT CONTROL; MALE; NEMATODE; PARASITOLOGY; PHAGOCYTE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GRASSHOPPERS; HEMOLYMPH; INSECT CONTROL; MALE; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PHAGOCYTES; RHABDITOIDEA;

EID: 0033086957     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jipa.1998.4823     Document Type: Article

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