EST analysis of genes expressed by the zygomycete pathogen Conidiobolus coronatus during growth on insect cuticle

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1893-1900

  Freimoser, Florian M ^a,b   Screen, Steven ^a,c   Hu, Gang ^a   St Leger, Raymond ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; CHITINASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FUNGAL ENZYME; HYDROLASE; METALLOPROTEINASE; PEPTIDE; PHOSPHOLIPASE; PROTEINASE; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; SUBTILISIN; TRYPSIN;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CADAVER; CONIDIOBOLUS; CONIDIOBOLUS CORONATUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; DEGRADATION; ENTOMOPATHOGENY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST; INSECT; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZYGOMYCETES;

ASCOMYCOTA; CONIDIOBOLUS; CONIDIOBOLUS CORONATUS; INSECTA; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; MYXOGASTRIA; ZYGOMYCETES; ZYGOMYCOTA;

EID: 0038148621     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26252-0     Document Type: Article

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