Hemolymph melanization and alterations in hemocyte numbers in Lymantria dispar larvae following infections with different entomopathogenic microsporidia

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 77-86

  Hoch, Gernot ^a,b   Solter, Leellen F ^b   Schopf, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Hemocytes; Hemolymph melanization; Immune response; Lepidoptera; Lymantria dispar; Lymantriidae; Microsporidia

Indexed keywords

PATHOLOGY;

ENDORETICULATUS; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYMANTRIA; LYMANTRIA DISPAR; LYMANTRIIDAE; MALACOSOMA AMERICANUM; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIUM; MICROSPORUM; VAIRIMORPHA;

EID: 10344242986     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-8703.2004.00203.x     Document Type: Article

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