Risk assessment and fitness of a transgenic entomopathogenic nematode

Biological Control

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 81-87

  Wilson, Michael ^a   Xin, Wanmin ^a   Hashmi, Sarwar ^a   Gaugler, Randy ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fitness; Genetic engineering; Heterorhabditis bacteriophora; Insect parasites; Nematode; Physiological cost; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; HETERORHABDITIS BACTERIOPHORA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0032903327     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.1999.0702     Document Type: Article

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