Characterization of the first molluscicidal lipopolysaccharide from Moraxella osloensis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 3646-3649

  Tan, Li ^a,b   Grewal, Parwinder S ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; LIPIDS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYSACCHARIDES; TOXICITY;

NEMATODES;

MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MOLLUSCACIDE;

BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; MOLLUSC; POLYSACCHARIDE; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEROCERAS RETICULATUM; EXTRACTION; INJECTION; LETHALITY; LIPID ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOLLUSC; MORAXELLA; MORAXELLA OSLOENSIS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PHASMARHABTIDIS HERMAPHRODITA; SENSITIZATION; TOXICITY;

AGRIOLIMACIDAE; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEROCERAS; DEROCERAS RETICULATUM; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; MORAXELLA OSLOENSIS; NEGIBACTERIA; NEMATODA; PHASMARHABDITIS HERMAPHRODITA;

EID: 0038654439     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.6.3646-3649.2003     Document Type: Article

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