Low temperature-induced insecticidal activity of Yersinia enterocolitica

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 503-512

  Bresolin, Geraldine ^a   Morgan, J Alun W ^b   Ilgen, Denise ^a   Scherer, Siegfried ^a   Fuchs, Thilo M ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; INSECTICIDAL TOXIN COMPLEX; INSECTICIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOTYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOMIC ISLAND; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; LOW TEMPERATURE; MANDUCA SEXTA; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; COLD; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, BACTERIAL; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; MANDUCA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MAMMALIA; MANDUCA SEXTA; NEGIBACTERIA; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; SERRATIA ENTOMOPHILA; XENORHABDUS NEMATOPHILA; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 33645049581     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04916.x     Document Type: Article

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