Context-dependent symbiosis between black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) and trichomycete fungi (Harpellales: Legeriomycetaceae)

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Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 362-370

  McCreadie, John W ^a   Beard, Charles E ^b   Adler, Peter H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; STARVATION; SURVIVAL; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DIPTERA; FUNGI; HARPELLALES; LEGERIOMYCETACEAE; SIMULIIDAE; SIMULIUM NIGRICOXUM; SIMULIUM VITTATUM; SMITTIUM; SMITTIUM CULISETAE; TRICHOMYCETES; VISCUM; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 13444267843     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2005.13417.x     Document Type: Article

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