Thermal biology of the meadow grasshopper, Chorthippus parallelus, and the implications for resistance to disease

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 724-732

  Springate, Simon ^a   Thomas, Matthew B ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beauveria bassiana; Behavioural fever; Behavioural thermoregulation; Chorthippus parallelus; Climate change; Metarhizium anisopliae var. acridum.

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; FUNGAL DISEASE; GRASSHOPPER; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MEADOW; SPORULATION; THERMOREGULATION; VIRULENCE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ACRIDIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BEAUVERIA; CHORTHIPPUS PARALLELUS; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE VAR. ACRIDUM;

EID: 33746614744     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0307-6946.2005.00743.x     Document Type: Article

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