Use of genetically engineered Escherichia coli to monitor ingestion, loss, and transfer of bacteria in termites

Current Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 119-123

  Husseneder, C ^a   Grace, J K ^b   Oishi, D E ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRACTION; FEEDING; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INGESTION; INOCULATION; INTESTINE; ISOPTERA; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PAPER; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECOMBINANT PLASMID;

AMPICILLIN RESISTANCE; ANIMALS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; ISOPTERA; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ISOPTERA; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 14944349980     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-004-4428-y     Document Type: Article

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