Age-dependent rates of infection of cassava green mites by a fungal pathogen in Brazil

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 169-180

  Elliot, Sam L ^a   Mumford, John D ^b   De Moraes, Gilberto J ^c   Sabelis, Maurice W ^d  

^a NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biological control; Cassava green mite; Epizootiology; Fungal pathogen; Host pathogen interactions; Neozygites floridana; Susceptibility

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CASSAVA; FUNGAL DISEASE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MITE;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAZIL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; FUNGI; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SEASONS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TETRANYCHIDAE;

BRAZIL;

ACARI; ARANEAE; ENTOMOPHTHORALES; INVERTEBRATA; MANIHOT ESCULENTA; MONONYCHELLUS; MONONYCHELLUS PROGRESIVUS; NEOZYGITACEAE; NEOZYGITES; NEOZYGITES FLORIDANA; TETRANYCHIDAE;

EID: 0036967939     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021644321360     Document Type: Article

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