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Pathogenicity, host range and temperature tolerance of Crypticola clavulifera (Oomycetes: Lagenidiales) in the
1Army Malaria Research Unit, MILPO, Ingleburn, NSW, Australia.
Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association
|September 1, 1991
Abstract:
The Oomycete fungus Crypticola clavulifera was pathogenic for laboratory-reared and field-collected larval Diptera, including the mosquitoes Aedes aegypti, Ae. notoscriptus, Anopheles farauti No. 1 and 3, Culex annulirostris, Cx. quinquefasciatus and the chironomid midge Chironomus tepperi. Zoospores were produced in water held at 15, 20 and 25 degrees C and were pathogenic for Ae. aegypti larvae, but at 30 and 35 degrees C zoospores were not produced.