A proposed role for the cuticular fatty amides of Liposcelis bostrychophila (Psocoptera: Liposcelidae) in preventing adhesion of entomopathogenic fungi with dry-conidia

Mycopathologia

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 211-217

  Lord, Jeffrey C ^a   Howard, Ralph W ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Beauveria bassiana; cuticular lipids; entomopathogenic fungi; fungal adhesion; Metarhizium anisopliae; Oryzaephilus surinamensis; Psocoptera

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BEETLE; CELL ADHESION; CHEMISTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; MICROBIOLOGY; PAECILOMYCES; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMIDES; ANIMALS; BEETLES; CELL ADHESION; FATTY ACIDS; HYPOCREALES; INSECTS; PAECILOMYCES;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS PARASITICUS; BEAUVERIA; COLEOPTERA; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; FUNGI; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; LIPOSCELIDAE; LIPOSCELIS; LIPOSCELIS BOSTRYCHOPHILA; METARHIZIUM; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; ORYZAEPHILUS SURINAMENSIS; PAECILOMYCES; PAECILOMYCES FUMOSOROSEUS; PSOCOPTERA;

EID: 4544374759     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:MYCO.0000041837.29478.78     Document Type: Article

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