Susceptibility of Culicoides biting midge larvae to the insect-pathogenic fungus, Metarhizium anisopliae: Prospects for bluetongue vector control

Acta Tropica

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-6

  Ansari, M A ^a   Carpenter, S ^b   Butt, T M ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

African horse sickness; Biological control; Bluetongue virus; Culicoides nubeculosus; Insect pathogenic fungi; Livestock; Metarhizium anisopliae

Indexed keywords

WATER;

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; FLY; FUNGUS; LARVA; MORTALITY; VIRULENCE;

ARBOVIRUS; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BEAUVERIA; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; BLUETONGUE ORBIVIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULICOIDES; CULICOIDES NUBECULOUS; FLY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; INOCULATION; LC 50; LIVESTOCK; METARHIZIUM; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; NONHUMAN; VECTOR CONTROL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BLUETONGUE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT VECTORS; LARVA; METARHIZIUM;

ARBOVIRUS; BEAUVERIA; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CULICOIDES NUBECULOSUS; DIPTERA; EQUIDAE; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; ISARIA; LECANICILLIUM; METARHIZIUM; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE;

EID: 71549153761     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2009.08.022     Document Type: Article

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