Laboratory investigations of trichomycete prevalence, abundance and fecundity in a Smittium-simuliid model

Mycologia

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 338-345

  Nelder, Mark P ^a,b   McCreadie, John W ^a   Beard, Charles E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Axenic cultures; Colonization; Harpellales; Simuliidae; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS; HOST SPECIFICITY;

CHIRONOMIDAE; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; FUNGI; HARPELLALES; SIMULIIDAE; SIMULIUM NIGRICOXUM; SMITTIUM; SMITTIUM CULISETAE; SMITTIUM MORBOSUM; TRICHOMYCETES; ZYGOMYCETES; ZYGOMYCOTA;

EID: 20444392601     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15572536.2006.11832809     Document Type: Article

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