ATCC? Number:50040?
Organism: Endoreticulatus sp.
Isolation: Agrotis exclamationis, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England, 1972
Depositors: PL Sherlock
Biosafety Level:1
Shipped: freeze-dried
Growth Conditions: Duration: in vivo, Agrotis exclamationis Protocol: ATCCNO: 50040 SPEC: Break open the vial, remove the contents and homogenize or grind carefully for 2-5 minutes with approximately 0.5 ml distilled water. Then dispense suspension onto the surface of the food plant or the artificial diet of the lepidopteran larvae to be infected. There are a sufficient number of spores to infect at least 10 larvae. For further information refer to: Entomophaga 29: 78-81, 1984.
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Cross References: Nucleotide (GenBank) : U10342 nuclear SSU rRNA gene
References: 4646: Sherlock PL. Some pathogenic effects of a species of Pleistophora (Protozoa, Microsporida) for agrotis exclamationis and other noctuids. Entomophaga 29: 73-81, 1984.