Analysis of Xenorhabdus nematophila metabolic mutants yields insight into stages of Steinernema carpocapsae nematode intestinal colonization

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 28-45

  Martens, Eric C ^a   Russell, Frances M ^a   Goodrich Blair, Heidi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMINOBENZOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PYRIDOXINE; THREONINE; VITAMIN;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL MUTANT; CELL PROLIFERATION; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE INFECTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEINERNEMA CARPOSCAPSAE; VITAMIN METABOLISM; WILD TYPE; XENORHABDUS NEMATOPHILA;

ANIMALS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENES, BACTERIAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; RHABDITIDA; THREONINE; XENORHABDUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEMATODA; STEINERNEMA CARPOCAPSAE; XENORHABDUS NEMATOPHILA;

EID: 26244437467     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04742.x     Document Type: Article

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