Potential Replication of Recombinant Baculoviruses in Nontarget Insect Species: Reporter Gene Products as Indicators of Infection

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 234-245

  Huang, Xin Pei ^a   Davis, Thomas R ^a   Hughes, Patrick ^a   Wood, Alan ^a  

^a United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

Author keywords

galactosidase; AcMNPV; BmNPV; Host range; LdMNPV; Luciferase; OpMNPV; Recombinant baculovirus; Secreted alkaline phosphatase

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001500196     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jipa.1997.4661     Document Type: Article

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