Scaling up tests on virulence of the cassava green mite fungal pathogen Neozygites tanajoae (Entomophthorales: Neozygitaceae) under controlled conditions: First observations at the population level

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 153-168

  Hountondji, Fabien Charles Cossi ^a,b   Hanna, Rachid ^a   Cherry, Andy J ^a,c   Sabelis, Maurice W ^b   Agboton, Bonaventure ^a   Korie, Sam ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Benin)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Entomopathogens; Individual level; Microbial control; Mononychellus tanajoa; Patch level

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; FUNGUS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MITE; PATHOGEN; TUBER; VIRULENCE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENTOMOPHTHORALES; FUNGUS SPORE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TETRANYCHIDAE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ENTOMOPHTHORALES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPORES, FUNGAL; TETRANYCHIDAE; VIRULENCE;

ACARI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTOMOPHTHORALES; FUNGI; MANIHOT ESCULENTA; MONONYCHELLUS PROGRESIVUS; MONONYCHELLUS TANAJOA; NEOZYGITACEAE; NEOZYGITES TANAJOAE;

EID: 33947532257     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-007-9061-6     Document Type: Article

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