Microsporidian infections in Lymantria dispar larvae: Interactions and effects of multiple species infections on pathogen horizontal transmission

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 105-113

  Pilarska, Daniela K ^a   Solter, Leellen F ^b   Kereselidze, Manana ^c   Linde, Andreas ^d   Hoch, Gernot ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Georgia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Co infection; Endoreticulatus schubergi; Horizontal transmission; Interspecific competition; Lymantria dispar; Nosema lymantriae; Vairimorpha disparis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; LARVA; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSPORIDA; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MOTH; NOSEMA; PANSPORABLASTINA; PANSPOROBLASTINA; PATHOGENICITY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; LARVA; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MOTHS; NOSEMA; PANSPORABLASTINA; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL;

ENDORETICULATUS; ENDORETICULATUS SCHUBERGI; LYMANTRIA DISPAR; MICROSPORIDIA; NOSEMA; VAIRIMORPHA;

EID: 68849101001     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: 10960805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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