A non-destructive, automated method of counting spores of Ophryocystis elektroscirrha (Neogregarinorida: Ophryocystidae) in infected monarch butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

Florida Entomologist

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 231-234

  Davis, Andrew K ^a   Altizer, Sonia ^a   Friedle, Elizabeth ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SAMPLING; SPORE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DANAUS PLEXIPPUS; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; NEOGREGARINORIDA; NYMPHALIDAE; OPHRYOCYSTIDAE; OPHRYOCYSTIS ELEKTROSCIRRHA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 3042537210     PISSN: 00154040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1653/0015-4040(2004)087[0231:ANAMOC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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