Bacterial symbiont transformation in chagas disease vectors

Insect Transgenesis: Methods and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 289-303

  Beard, Charles B ^a   Durvasula, Ravi V ^b   Richards, Frank F ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1201/9781420039399     Document Type: Chapter

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