The clonal structure of Bacillus thuringiensis isolates from north-east Poland does not correlate with their cry gene diversity

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 34-39

  Świȩcicka, Izabela ^a   Mahillon, Jacques ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; ENDOTOXIN; HEMOLYSIN; INSECTICIDAL CRYSTAL PROTEIN, BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DRUG EFFECT; FLY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; INTESTINE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEPIDOPTERA; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RODENT; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; DIPTERA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENDOTOXINS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; INTESTINES; LEPIDOPTERA; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENTIA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; NEMATODA; RODENTIA;

EID: 12544256421     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00662.x     Document Type: Article

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