Use of the Green Fluorescent Protein for Investigations of Paecilomyces fumosoroseus in Insect Hosts

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 193-197

  Cantone, Frank A ^a   Vandenberg, John D ^a  

^a US Plant Soil and Nutr Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Co transformation; Diamondback moth; Diuraphis noxia; Green fluorescent protein; Paecilomyces fumosoroseus; Plutella xylostella; Russian wheat aphid

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOTH; PAECILOMYCES; PATHOGENICITY;

ANIMALS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MOTHS; PAECILOMYCES;

EID: 0033192512     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jipa.1999.4864     Document Type: Article

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