Musty odor of entomopathogens enhances disease-prevention behaviors in the termite Coptotermes formosanus

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-6

  Yanagawa, Aya ^a   Fujiwara Tsujii, Nao ^b   Akino, Toshiharu ^c   Yoshimura, Tsuyoshi ^a   Yanagawa, Takashi ^d   Shimizu, Susumu ^e  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d KURUME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beauveria brongniartii; Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki; Disease prevention behavior; Fungal odor; Isaria fumosoroseus; Metarhizium anisopliae; SPME

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEAUVERIA; CHEMISTRY; FUNGUS SPORE; GROOMING; HYPOCREALES; ISOPTERA; METARHIZIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEAUVERIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; GROOMING; HYPOCREALES; ISOPTERA; METARHIZIUM; ODORS; SPORES, FUNGAL;

BEAUVERIA; COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; CORDYCEPS BRONGNIARTII; FUNGI; ISARIA; ISOPTERA; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE;

EID: 80051557904     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: 10960805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2011.06.001     Document Type: Article

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