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Response of ants to a deterrent factor(s) produced by the symbiotic bacteria of entomopathogenic nematodes.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Dec 2002
Zhou Xinsheng, Kaya Harry K, Heungens Kurt, Goodrich-Blair Heidi
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The production of an ant-deterrent factor(s) (ADF) by Xenorhabdus nematophila and Photorhabdus luminescens, the symbiotic bacteria of the nematodes Steinernema carpocapsae and Heterorhabditis bacteriophora, respectively, was examined. In addition to an in vivo assay in which bacteria were tested for their ability to produce ADF within insect cadavers (M.E. Baur, H. K. Kaya, and D. R. Strong, Biol. Control...
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