Comparative bacterial genomics and its use in undergraduate education

Biological Control

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 47-53

  Forst, Steven ^a   Goodner, Brad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b HIRAM COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

College education; Entomopathogenic nematode bacterium complex; Genetics; Genome; Host microbe interactions; Mutualism; Photorhabdus; Xenorhabdus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; INSECTA; NEMATODA; PHOTORHABDUS; PHOTORHABDUS ASYMBIOTICA; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; XENORHABDUS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 33744506932     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2005.11.006     Document Type: Article

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