Conjugal transfer of a toxin-coding megaplasmid from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis to mosquitocidal strains of Bacillus sphaericus

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1766-1770

  Gammon, Katherine ^a   Jones, Gareth W ^a   Hope, Steven J ^a   De Oliveira, Cláudia M F ^b   Regis, Lêda ^b   Silva Filha, Maria Helena N L ^b   Dancer, Brian N ^a   Berry, Colin ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CELLS; PESTICIDES; PLASMAS; VEGETATION;

BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS SUBSP. ISRAELENSIS; CONJUGAL TRANSFER; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; ERYTHROMYCIN; MOSQUITOCIDAL STRAINS; PLASMID LOSS DURING SPORULATION; SPORULATION; TOXIN-CODING MEGAPLASMID;

TOXIC MATERIALS;

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CRY11A TOXIN; CRY4A TOXIN; CRY4B TOXIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; INSECTICIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

PLASMID;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; GENE TRANSFER; INSECT CONTROL; MATING TYPE; MEGAPLASMID; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PLASMID BTOXIS; SPOROGENESIS; VEGETATIVE GROWTH;

AEDES; ANIMALS; BACILLUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CULEX; ENDOTOXINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; LARVA; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMIDS; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

AEDES AEGYPTI; BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS SEROVAR ISRAELENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; INSECTA;

EID: 33644959981     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.3.1766-1770.2006     Document Type: Article

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