Comparison of volatile blends and gene sequences of two isolates of metarhizium anisopliae of different virulence and repellency toward the termite macrotermes michaelseni

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 214, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 956-962

  Mburu, David M ^a,b   Ndung'u, Mary W ^c   Maniania, Nguya K ^a   Hassanali, Ahmed ^a,d  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^b PWANI UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^c JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Kenya)

^d KENYATTA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Ecological interaction; Macrotermes michaelseni; Metarhizium anisopliae; Olfactory chemical signature; Physiological interaction

Indexed keywords

INSECT REPELLENT; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA BARCODING; DRUG EFFECT; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISOPTERA; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METARHIZIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENES, FUNGAL; INSECT REPELLENTS; ISOPTERA; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; METARHIZIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRULENCE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

FUNGI; ISOPTERA; MACROTERMES MICHAELSENI; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE;

EID: 79951987493     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.050419     Document Type: Article

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