Novel technique for quantifying adhesion of metarhizium anisopliae conidia, to the tick cuticle

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3521-3528

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

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA; CONCENTRATION OF; CONIDIAL GERMINATION; DETERGENT SOLUTION; FUNGAL INFECTION; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; NOVEL METHODS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; SEM;

ADHESION; AIR EJECTORS; DICHLOROMETHANE; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); VALUE ENGINEERING;

FUNGI;

ADHESION; CORRELATION; CUTICLE; DETERGENT; GERMINATION; MORTALITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPORE; TICK;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; FUNGUS SPORE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METARHIZIUM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURVIVAL; TICK; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; METARHIZIUM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MYCOLOGY; SPORES, FUNGAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TICKS;

ALPHITOBIUS DIAPERINUS; ARACHNIDA; ARTHROPODA; CLAVICIPITACEAE; COLEOPTERA; HYPOCREALES; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE VAR. ANISOPLIAE; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS ANNULATUS; TENEBRIONIDAE;

EID: 77953052733     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02596-09     Document Type: Article

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