New and emended descriptions of gregarines from flour beetles (Tribolium spp. and Palorus subdepressus: Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1155-1170

  Janovy Jr , J ^a   Detwiler, J ^a   Schwank, S ^a   Bolek, M G ^a   Knipes, A K ^a   Langford, G J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LARVA; MORPHOLOGY; NEW TAXON; PATHOGENICITY; PROTOZOAN; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; AWRYGREGARINA BILLMANI; BEETLE; BODY COMPOSITION; COLEOPTERA; GREGARINA CLOPTINI; GREGARINA CONFUSA; GREGARINA MINUTA; GREGARINA PALORI; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PALORUS SUBDEPRESSUS; PROTOZOON; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TAXONOMY; TENEBRIONIDAE; TRIBOLIUM; TRIBOLIUM BREVICORNIS; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM; TRIBOLIUM CONFUSUM; TRIBOLIUM FREEMANI; TROPHOZOITE;

ANIMALS; APICOMPLEXA; BEETLES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OOCYSTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRIBOLIUM;

COLEOPTERA; GREGARINA; GREGARINIA; PALORUS SUBDEPRESSUS; TENEBRIONIDAE; TRIBOLIUM (BEETLE); TRIBOLIUM BREVICORNIS; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM; TRIBOLIUM FREEMANI;

EID: 36749024521     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1090R.1     Document Type: Article

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