| prevalence and dynamics of the zoosporic pathogen catenaria uncinata in a natural population of the midge glyptotendipes lobiferus. | a qpcr assay specific for zoospores of catenaria uncinata, a fungal parasite in eggs of the midge glyptotendipes lobiferus, was developed and used in parallel with traditional microscopic methods in a season-long study of a c. uncinata/g. lobiferus association in a local pond. twenty-six consecutive weekly collections of egg masses were screened with a microscope to obtain percentages of infection and mortality in organogenetic egg masses and weekly water samples were processed by absolute quant ... | 2016 | 27418147 |