Metarhizium anisopliae conidial responses to lipids from tick cuticle and tick mammalian host surface

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 132-139

  Ment, Dana ^a   Gindin, Galina ^a   Soroker, Victoria ^a   Glazer, Itamar ^a   Rot, Asael ^a   Samish, Michael ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Appressorium; Biocontrol; Cuticle extract; Fur; Germination; Hyalomma excavatum; Metarhizium anisopliae; Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) annulatus; Rhipicephalus sanguineus; Skin scrape

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; FUNGUS SPORE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METARHIZIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TICK;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LIPIDS; METARHIZIUM; SPORES, FUNGAL; TICKS;

ARTHROPODA; BOOPHILUS; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; HYALOMMA ANATOLICUM EXCAVATUM; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS ANNULATUS; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS;

EID: 73649133971     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: 10960805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2009.12.010     Document Type: Article

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