Genetically engineered termite gut bacteria (Enterobacter cloacae) deliver and spread foreign genes in termite colonies

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 360-367

  Husseneder, Claudia ^a   Grace, J Kenneth ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PEST CONTROL; PROTEINS;

ENTEROBACTER; FILTER PAPERS; TERMITES;

BACTERIA;

AMPICILLIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; GENE TRANSFER; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; PEST CONTROL; TERMITE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INOCULATION; INTESTINE FLORA; ISOPTERA; LABORATORY TEST; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; SOIL MICROFLORA;

AMPICILLIN RESISTANCE; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTESTINES; ISOPTERA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ISOPTERA; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 23844556882     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-005-1914-5     Document Type: Article

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