Symbiotic fungal endophytes control insect host-parasite interaction webs

Nature

Volumn 409, Issue 6816, 2001, Pages 78-81

  Omacini, Marina ^a   Chaneton, Enrique J ^a   Ghersa, Claudio M ^a   Müller, Christine B ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ENDOPHYTE; FOOD WEB; FUNGUS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INSECT;

ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENERGY TRANSFER; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD INTAKE; FUNGUS; GRASS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; ASCOMYCOTA; FOOD CHAIN; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; LOLIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 0035804241     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35051070     Document Type: Article

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