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Microsporidia-host interactions in beneficial lady beetles : factors that influence chronic disease

Steele, Thomas Jean (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-04-27)

Lady beetles produce species-specific defensive compounds (alkaloids) that are toxic to some predators and deters others with their foul taste. Some lady beetle alkaloids, such as harmonine from Harmonia axyridis, ...
Ultrastructure and tissue pathology of two microsporidia infecting the two-spotted lady beetle, Adalia bipunctata L. (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and the green lacewing Chrysoperla carnea Stephens (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae), used for biological control

Steele, Thomas Jean (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)

Two undescribed microsporidia were found in insects that are commercially available for biological control: one from field-collected Adaliae bipunctata and another from Chrysoperla carnea purchased from a commercial ...

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