Nest sanitation through defecation: Antifungal properties of wood cockroach feces

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 100, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1051-1059

  Rosengaus, Rebeca B ^a   Mead, Kerry ^a   Du Comb, William S ^a   Benson, Ryan W ^a   Godoy, Veronica G ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

1,3 Glucanases; Cryptocercus punctulatus; Metarhizium anisopliae; Preadaptation; Sociality; Termites

Indexed keywords

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; COCKROACH; DEAD WOOD; DEFECATION; DIVERGENCE; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUSOCIALITY; FECES; FUNGUS; GERMINATION; NEST; PHYLOGENETICS; SUBSTRATE; TERMITE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BLATTARIA; CRYPTOCERCIDAE; CRYPTOCERCUS PUNCTULATUS; FUNGI; ISOPTERA; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; PARCOBLATTA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COCKROACH; DEFECATION; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; FECES; METARHIZIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; WOOD;

ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; COCKROACHES; DEFECATION; FECES; METARHIZIUM; NESTING BEHAVIOR; WOOD;

EID: 84890547955     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-013-1110-x     Document Type: Article

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