Molecular biology of the symbiotic-pathogenic bacteria Xenorhabdus spp. and Photorhabdus spp.

Microbiological Reviews

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 21-43

  Forst, Steven ^a   Nealson, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ENZYME RELEASE; FIMBRIA; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HETERORHABDITIS; INSECTA; NEGIBACTERIA; NEMATODA; PHOTORHABDUS; STEINERNEMA; XENORHABDUS;

EID: 0029980553     PISSN: 01460749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.60.1.21-43.1996     Document Type: Review

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