Real-time quantitative PCR for analysis of candidate fungal biopesticides against malaria: Technique validation and first applications

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 160-168

  Bell, Andrew S ^a,b   Blanford, Simon ^a,b   Jenkins, Nina ^b,c   Thomas, Matthew B ^b,c   Read, Andrew F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anopheles stephensi; Beauveria bassiana; Fungal biopesticides; Growth kinetics; Malaria; Metarhizium anisopliae; Plasmodium chabaudi; Real time quantitative PCR assays; Vector control

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; BEAUVERIA; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; DISEASE CARRIER; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; MALARIA; METARHIZIUM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOSQUITO; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BEAUVERIA; GENES, FUNGAL; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; METARHIZIUM; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANOPHELES (GENUS); ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; BEAUVERIA; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE VAR. ACRIDUM; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI;

EID: 62249201997     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: 10960805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2009.01.006     Document Type: Article

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