Feeding Habits and Gut Fauna of Zootermopsis angusticollis (Isoptera: Termopsidae) in Response to Wood Species and Fungal Associates

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1315-1322

  Mankowski, M E ^a   Schowalter, T D ^a   Morrell, J J ^a   Lyons, B ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Feeding behavior; Gut protozoa; Stereum sanguinolentum; Trichoderma viride; Zootermopsis angusticollis

Indexed keywords

ABIES; ABIES PROCERA; CONIFEROPHYTA; CONIUM; CONIUM MACULATUM; ISOPTERA; PROTOZOA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; STEREUM SANGUINOLENTUM; TERMOPSIDAE; THUJA; THUJA PLICATA; TRICHODERMA VIRIDE; TSUGA; TSUGA HETEROPHYLLA; ZOOTERMOPSIS ANGUSTICOLLIS;

EID: 0542375870     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/27.6.1315     Document Type: Article

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