The gut of Guatemalan passalid beetles: A habitat colonized bycellobiose- and xylose-fermenting yeasts

Fungal Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 339-355

  Urbina, Hector ^a   Schuster, Jack ^b   Blackwell, Meredith ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE DE GUATEMALA   (Guatemala)

Author keywords

Central America; Digestive system; Insect; Polyphaga; Saccharomycotina; Scarabaeoidea

Indexed keywords

ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; COLEOPTERA; CRYPTOCOCCUS (TREMELLOMYCETIDAE); CRYPTOCOCCUS (TRICHOSPORONALES); HEXAPODA; LODDEROMYCES; PASSALIDAE; PHAFFOMYCES; POLYPHAGA (COLEOPTERA); SACCHAROMYCOTINA; SCARABAEOIDEA; TRICHOSPORON (TRICHOSPORONALES);

EID: 84884419266     PISSN: 17545048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2013.06.005     Document Type: Article

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