Inhibition of microorganisms on a carrion breeding resource: The antimicrobial peptide activity of burying beetle (Coleoptera: Silphidae) oral and anal secretions

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 669-678

  Hall, Carrie L ^a   Wadsworth, Nicholas K ^a   Howard, Daniel R ^b   Jennings, Eleanor M ^c   Farrell, Larry D ^a   Magnuson, Timothy S ^a   Smith, Rosemary J ^a  

^a Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

^b AUGUSTANA COLLEGE   (United States)

^c URS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; competition; Nicrophorus; parental care; secretions

Indexed keywords

ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM; BEETLE; BREEDING POPULATION; CARRION; COLONIZATION; FOOD WEB; INHIBITION; NUTRIENT; PARENTAL CARE; PEPTIDE; SCAVENGER; SECRETION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SECRETIONS;

ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BEETLES; BODILY SECRETIONS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SERINE PROTEASES; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; NICROPHORUS; SILPHIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79958764132     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN10137     Document Type: Article

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