Individual and population effects of eugregarine, Gregarina niphandrodes (Eugregarinida: Gregarinidae), on Tenebrio molitor (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 689-693

  Rodriguez, Yesenia ^a   Omoto, Charlotte K ^a   Gomulkiewicz, Richard ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gregarine; Longevity; Mealworm beetles; Population

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LONGEVITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PROTOZOAN;

ANIMAL; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; LONGEVITY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; TENEBRIO;

ANIMALS; APICOMPLEXA; LONGEVITY; POPULATION DENSITY; TENEBRIO;

APICOMPLEXA; COLEOPTERA; EUGREGARINIDA; GREGARINA NIPHANDRODES; GREGARINIA; GREGARINIDAE; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; TENEBRIO; TENEBRIO MOLITOR; TENEBRIONIDAE;

EID: 34548149710     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2007)36[689:IAPEOE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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