Environmental factors affecting sexual differentiation in the entomopathogenic nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora

Journal of Experimental Zoology

Volumn 287, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 158-166

  Kahel Raifer, Hamutal ^a   Glazer, Itamar ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; FEMALE; HERMAPHRODITISM; LEPIDOPTERA; MALE; NEMATODE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX RATIO; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; HERMAPHRODITISM; LEPIDOPTERA; MALE; RHABDITIDA; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX RATIO; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANIS FAMILIARIS; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; HETERORHABDITIS BACTERIOPHORA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; NEMATODA;

EID: 85047696115     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-010X(20000701)287:2<158::AID-JEZ6>3.3.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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