Ampicillin, tetracycline and urea as protozoicides for symbionts of Reticulitermes flavipes and R. virginicus (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Bulletin of Entomological Research

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 77-81

  Waller, Deborah Ann ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPTERA; PROTOZOA; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES; RETICULITERMES VIRGINICUS; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 0039700228     PISSN: 00074853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0007485300052238     Document Type: Article

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