A Bacillus sphaericus gene encoding a novel type of mosquitocidal toxin of 31.8 kDa

Gene

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 85-89

  Thanabalu, Thirumaran ^a   Porter, Alan G ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Culex quinquefasciatus; Cytotoxin; Insecticidal protein; Mosquito larvae; toxin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CYTOTOXIN; INSECTICIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LARVA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030010331     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(95)00836-5     Document Type: Article

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