Genome characterization, analysis of virulence and transformation of Microbacterium nematophilum, a coryneform pathogen of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 264, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 145-151

  Akimkina, Tatiana ^a   Yook, Karen ^a   Curnock, Steve ^a   Hodgkin, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Coryneform; Microbacterium; Nematode; Pathogenesis; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ACTINOMYCETALES; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; LYSOGENIZATION; MICROBACTERIUM NEMATOPHILUM; MUTAGENESIS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PLASMIDS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CORYNEFORM BACTERIUM; MICROBACTERIUM; MICROBACTERIUM NEMATOPHILUM; NEMATODA;

EID: 33750333575     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00469.x     Document Type: Article

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