The effect of temperature and host species on the development of the trichomycete Smittium culisetae (Zygomycota)

Mycologia

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 412-420

  Vojvodic, Svjetlana ^a,b   McCreadie, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Culicidae; Harpellales; Simuliidae; Symbiosis; Zygomycota

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; FLY; FUNGUS; GROWTH RATE; HOST; MOSQUITO; SPORE; SYMBIOSIS; SYNCHRONY; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

AEDES; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; ZYGOMYCETES;

AEDES; ANIMALS; SIMULIIDAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; ZYGOMYCOTA;

AEDES AEGYPTI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; HARPELLALES; LEGERIOMYCETACEAE; SIMULIIDAE; SIMULIUM VITTATUM; SMITTIUM CULISETAE; ZYGOMYCETES; ZYGOMYCOTA;

EID: 34548043036     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/mycologia.99.3.412     Document Type: Article

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