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| Title: | Evidence for Inhibition of Termite (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) Feeding by Extracellular Metabolites of a Wood Decay Fungus |
| Other Titles: | Proceedings, Hawaiian Entomological Society |
| Author(s): | Grace, J Kenneth
Goodell, Barry S
Jones, Wendy E
Chandhoke, Vikas
Jellison, Jody |
| Issue Date: | 1992 |
| Publisher: | Hawaiian Entomological Society |
| Citation: | Grace JK, Goodell BS, Jones WE, Chandhoke V, Jellsion J. 1992. Evidence for inhibition of termite (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) feeding by extracellular metabolites of a wood decay fungus. Proc Hawaiian Entomol Soc 31:249-252. |
| Abstract: | Siderophores are iron-chelating extracellular fungal metabolites which may be involved in initiating wood decay. A purified siderophore extract isolated from the brown-rot decay fungus Gloeophyllum trabeum (Pers. ex Fr.) Murr. (Basidiomycetes: Polyporaceae) was found to deter feeding by Formosan subterranean termites, Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae). This fungus has previously been associated with preferential feeding on decayed wood by subterranean termites, and solvent extracts have been reported to induce termite trail-following, arrestment, and/or aggregation. This is the first report of G. trabeum metabolites or fungal siderophores having a negative behavioral effect on subterranean termites. |
| Number of Page(s): | 4 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11302 |
| ISSN: | 0073-134X |
| Appears in Collections: | Volume 31 – 1992 : Hawaiian Entomological Society
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