Diversity of trichomycetes in larval flies from aquatic habitats in Argentina

Mycologia

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 347-362

  Siri, Augusto ^a   López Lastra, Claudia C ^b  

^a Instituto de Limnologia Dr Raul A Ringuelet   (Argentina)

^b CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS PARASITOLÓGICOS Y DE VECTORES CEPAVE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Diptera; Endosymbiotic fungi; Harpellales; Kickxellomycotina; Macroinvertebrates

Indexed keywords

ENDOSYMBIONT; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; FUNGUS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HOST RANGE; LARVA; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MOSQUITO; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARGENTINA;

AUSTROSMITTIUM; CHIRONOMIDAE; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; FUNGI; HARPELLA; HARPELLALES; INSECTA; LEGERIOMYCES; SIMULIIDAE; SIMULIUM NIGRICOXUM; SMITTIUM; STACHYLINA LENTICA; TRICHOMYCETES;

ANIMAL; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; FUNGUS; INSECT; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; BIODIVERSITY; FUNGI; INSECTS; LARVA; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 77951912409     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/08-103     Document Type: Article

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