Gnotobiological Study of Infective Juveniles and Symbionts of Steinernema scapterisci: A Model to Clarify the Concept of the Natural Occurrence of Monoxenic Associations in Entomopathogenic Nematodes

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 164-172

  Bonifassi, Eliane ^a   Fischer Le Saux, Marion ^b   Boemare, Noël ^b   Lanois, Anne ^b   Laumond, Christian ^a   Smart, Grover ^c  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial phenotypic analysis; Entomopathogenicity; Gnotobiology; Nematode production in vivo and in vitro; PCR RFLP of 16S rRNA genes; Steinernema scapterisci; Surface axenization of IJs; Xenorhabdus strain UY61

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GRYLLIDAE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOTH; NEMATODE; PARASITOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; XENORHABDUS;

ANIMALS; GRYLLIDAE; MOTHS; NEMATODA; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SYMBIOSIS; XENORHABDUS;

EID: 0033194763     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jipa.1999.4866     Document Type: Article

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