Verified and potential pathogens of predatory mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae)

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 46, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 307-328

  Schütte, Conny ^a   Dicke, Marcel ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acari; Bacteria; Biological control; Disease; Fungi; Pathogens; Phytoseiidae; Protozoa; Viruses

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; DISEASE; FUNGUS; MITE; PATHOGEN; POTENTIAL BIOCONTROL AGENT; PROTOZOAN; VIRUS;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROCOCCACEAE; MICROSPORIDA; MITE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; RICKETTSIACEAE;

ANIMALS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MICROCOCCACEAE; MICROSPORIDIA; MITES; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; RICKETTSIACEAE;

ACARI; ACARIICOMES PHYTOSEIULI; AMBLYSEIUS; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS CARDINIUM; FUNGI; GALENDROMUS; METASEIULUS; METASEIULUS OCCIDENTALIS; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIUM; MICROSPORIDIUM PHYTOSEIULI; MICROSPORUM; NEOSEIULUS; PHYTOSEIIDAE; PHYTOSEIULUS; PHYTOSEIULUS PERSIMILIS; PROTOZOA; SPIROPLASMA; TYPHLODROMUS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 57349117726     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-008-9188-0     Document Type: Review

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