Article
A novel disease affecting the predatory mite Phytoseiulus persimilis (Acari, Phytoseiidae): evidence for the involvement of bacteria
2008-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Adult female Phytoseiulus persimilis Athias-Henriot (Acari, Phytoseiidae) of a laboratory population show drastic changes in foraging behavior, anatomy and life history compared to typical laboratory populations. We demonstrated earlier that the set of characteristic symptoms, called non-responding (NR) syndrome, is transmitted horizontally between and among predator generations via feces and debris deposited by s...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6c39431d-ae73-504a-a3bd-20364996758f
- DOI
- 10.1080/09583150701718255
