The inhibitory effect of the fungal toxin, destruxin A, on behavioural fever in the desert locust

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1341-1346

  Hunt, V L ^a   Charnley, A K ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioural fever; Destruxin; Metarhizium; Schistocerca gregaria; Survival; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

DEPSIPEPTIDE; DESTRUXIN A; MYCOTOXIN;

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIOCONTROL AGENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FUNGAL DISEASE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INHIBITION; INHIBITOR; LOCUST; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMOREGULATION; TOXIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; DRUG EFFECT; GRASSHOPPER; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METARHIZIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENTS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; DEPSIPEPTIDES; GRASSHOPPERS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MALE; METARHIZIUM; MYCOTOXINS; TEMPERATURE;

HEXAPODA; METARHIZIUM; ORTHOPTERA; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA;

EID: 80052471536     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2011.06.008     Document Type: Article

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