Beauveria bassiana infection alters colony development and defensive secretions of the beetles tribolium castaneum and ulomoides dermestoides (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1094-1099

  Pedrini, N ^a   Villaverde, M L ^a   Fuse, C B ^a   Bello, G M Dal ^b   Jurez, M P ^a  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS AGRARIAS Y FORESTALES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

biological control; defensive pheromone; entomopathogenic fungi; solid phase microextraction; stored products pests

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEAUVERIA; BEETLE; INTEGUMENT; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BEAUVERIA; BEETLES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

COLEOPTERA; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; FUNGI; TENEBRIONIDAE; TRIBOLIUM (BEETLE); TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 77955316654     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EC10072     Document Type: Article

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