New insights into the colonization and release processes of Xenorhabdus nematophila and the morphology and ultrastructure of the bacterial receptacle of its nematode host, Steinernema carpocapsae

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 5338-5346

  Snyder, Holly ^a   Stock, S Patricia ^b   Kim, Sam Kyu ^b   Flores Lara, Yolanda ^b,c   Forst, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE SONORA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COLONIZATION; XENORHABDUS NEMATOPHILA;

BACTERIA;

LEVAMISOLE;

BACTERIUM; COLONIZATION; JUVENILE; MORPHOLOGY; MOVEMENT; NEMATODE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL RECEPTACLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL INTERFERENCE CONTRAST; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION; HEMOLYMPH; INCUBATION TIME; INTESTINE MOTILITY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; STEINERNEMA CARPOCAPSAE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; XENORHABDUS NEMATOPHILA;

ANIMALS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEMATODA; XENORHABDUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; STEINERNEMA CARPOCAPSAE; XENORHABDUS; XENORHABDUS NEMATOPHILA;

EID: 34548206679     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02947-06     Document Type: Article

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