Production of Cry11A and Cry11Ba toxins in Bacillus sphaericus confers toxicity towards Aedes aegypti and resistant Culex populations

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 3021-3026

  Servant, Pascale ^a,b   Rosso, Marie Laure ^b   Hamon, Sylviane ^b   Poncet, Sandrine ^a   Delécluse, Armelle ^b   Rapoport, Georges ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CRY11A; CRY11BA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CULEX; CULEX PIPIENS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARACHNIDA; BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS SEROVAR JEGATHESAN; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CULEX; CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; HEXAPODA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032976550     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.7.3021-3026.1999     Document Type: Article

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