Simple bacteriological tests for phenotypic characterization of Xenorhabdus and Photorhabdus phase variants

Symbiosis

Volumn 22, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 167-175

  Boemare, N ^a   Thaler, J O ^a   Lanois, A ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

antibiosis; dye adsorption; hemolysis; lipases; phospholipases; Pigmentation; proteases

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030981491     PISSN: 03345114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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