Screening for the presence of nematophagous fungi collected from Irish sheep pastures

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 165, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 345-349

  Kelly, Paula ^a,b   Good, Barbara ^a   Hanrahan, J P ^a   Fitzpatrick, Richard ^a   de Waal, Theo ^b  

^a TEAGASC   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Duddingtonia flagrans; Ireland; Nematophagous fungi; Screening; Sheep farm

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOPAGE LATERALIS; DRECHMERIA CONIOSPORA; DUDDINGTONIA; DUDDINGTONIA CONIOSPORA; ENDOPARASITE; FECES ANALYSIS; FUNGUS; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HIRSUTELLA RHOISSILENSIS; IRELAND; MERISTACRUM ASTEROSPERUM; MONACROSPORIUM CIONOPAGA; NEMATOPHAGOUS FUNGUS; NONHUMAN; SHEEP; SOIL ANALYSIS; STYLOPAGE HADRA;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; FECES; IRELAND; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; SHEEP; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

DRECHMERIA CONIOSPORA; DUDDINGTONIA FLAGRANS; FUNGI; HADRA; HIRSUTELLA; MONACROSPORIUM; NEMATODA; OVIS ARIES; STYLOPAGE;

EID: 70349766710     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2009.07.026     Document Type: Article

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