Firebrats, Thermobia domestica, aggregate in response to the microbes Enterobacter cloacae and Mycotypha microspora

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 154-159

  Woodbury, Nathan ^a   Gries, Gerhard ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Bacterium; Fungus; Lepismatidae; Mucorales; Pheromone; Signalling; Symbiont; Thysanura

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; CONSPECIFIC; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; FECES; FUNGUS; METABOLITE; PHEROMONE; SIGNALING; SOLVENT; SYMBIONT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FUNGI; LEPISMATIDAE; MICROSPORIDIA; MUCORALES; MYCOTYPHA MICROSPORA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; THERMOBIA DOMESTICA; THYSANURA;

EID: 84876188980     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eea.12054     Document Type: Article

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