Isolation of Metarhizium anisopliae (Deuteromycotina: Hyphomycetes) from Reticulitermes flavipes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) with convenient methods for its culture and collection of conidia

Sociobiology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 257-264

  Myles, Timothy G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES;

EID: 0036376834     PISSN: 03616525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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