Environmental conditions and their impact on immunocompetence and pathogen susceptibility of the Caribbean termite Nasutitermes acajutlae

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 459-470

  Fuller, Claire A ^a   Postava Davignon, Marielle A ^b   West, Andrew ^a   Rosengaus, Rebeca B ^b  

^a MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abiotic factors; Immunocompetence; Lipid content; Metarhizium anisopliae; Phenoloxidase; Temperature; Termite

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LIPID; PATHOGEN; PH; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SOIL PROFILE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TERMITE; WORKER CASTE;

HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; NASUTITERMES ACAJUTLAE;

EID: 79960337906     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2011.01289.x     Document Type: Article

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