The host acts as a genetic bottleneck during serial infections: An insect-fungal model system

Current Genetics

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 335-345

  Scully, Lisa R ^a   Bidochka, Michael J ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aspergillus flavus; Galleria mellonella; Genetic bottleneck; Genetic variation; Pathogen evolution; Serial passage

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; PROTEINASE;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS CULTURE; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOST SELECTION; INSECT; LABORATORY TEST; LARVA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CULTURE MEDIA; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; SERIAL PASSAGE; VIRULENCE;

ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; FUNGI; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; INSECTA;

EID: 33748517279     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-006-0089-7     Document Type: Review

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