Predicting occurrence of the fungal symbiote Harpella colonizing black fly larvae in coastal streams of Alabama and Mississippi, USA

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-5

  Nelder, Mark P ^a   McCreadie, John W ^a   Beard, Charles E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discriminant function analysis; Harpella; Lotic habitats; Nematocera; Peritrophic matrix; Simulium; Symbiosis; Trichomycetes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FLY; FUNGUS; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; RIVER; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

ALABAMA; ANIMALS; FUNGI; LARVA; MISSISSIPPI; MYCOSES; RIVERS; SIMULIIDAE; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

HARPELLA; NEMATOCERA; SIMULIIDAE; SIMULIUM NIGRICOXUM; TRICHOMYCETES;

EID: 68449087486     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: 10960805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2009.05.013     Document Type: Article

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