Control of the bacterium Serratia marcescens in an insect host-parasite rearing program |
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Authors: | EG King JV Bell DF Martin |
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Institution: | Bioenvironmental Insect Control Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Stoneville, Mississippi 38776 |
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Abstract: | Two occluded viruses of the Entomopoxvirus (D)/1: 1/1: (= Vagoiavirus) group have been found in larvae of Dermolepida albohirtum (Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) and Aphodius tasmaniae (Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) from northern Queensland and northern Tasmania, Australia, respectively. Electron microscopical studies have been made of thin sections of occluded (mature) and nonoccluded virus particles within the fat body tissue of living diseased D. albohirtum larvae and of occluded virus particles within a dead, field-collected A. tasmaniae larva. The morphology and development of the known Australian entomopoxviruses are compared with previously known entompox or spheroidosis viruses from various insects. |
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