Molecular analysis of hypervirulent somatic hybrids of the entomopathogenic fungi Beauveria bassiana and Beauveria sulfurescens

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 88-93

  Viaud, Muriel ^a   Couteaudier, Yvonne ^a   Riba, Guy ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PATHOGENICITY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIRULENCE;

BASSIANA; BEAUVERIA; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031975995     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.1.88-93.1998     Document Type: Article

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