Faecal pellets of lichenivorous mites contain viable cells of the lichen-forming ascomycete Xanthoria parietina and its green algal photobiont, Trebouxia arboricola

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 259-268

  Meier, Franz A ^a   Scherrer, Sandra ^a   Honegger, Rosmarie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acari; Comparative rDNA sequence analysis culturing experiments; Hydrophobin gene sequence; Lichen arthropod interactions; Oribatid mites; Trhypochtonius tectorum; Trichoribates trimaculatus; Vegetative dispersal of lichens

Indexed keywords

FECAL PELLET; GREEN ALGA; LICHEN; MITE;

ACARI; ALGAE; ARTHROPODA; ASCOMYCOTA; CHLOROPHYTA; INVERTEBRATA; ORIBATIDA; TREBOUXIA; TREBOUXIA ARBORICOLA; XANTHORIA; XANTHORIA PARIETINA;

EID: 0036619310     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1095-8312.2002.00065.x     Document Type: Article

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