Use of green fluorescent protein to monitor Lactobacillus in the gastro-intestinal tract of chicken

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 275, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 207-213

  Yu, Qing Hua ^a   Dong, Suo Meng ^a   Zhu, Wei Yun ^a   Yang, Qian ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chicken; Gastro intestinal tract; Green fluorescent protein; Lactobacillus

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE EXPRESSION; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS DELBRUECKII; LAMINA PROPRIA; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; ELECTROPORATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; LACTOBACILLUS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GALLUS GALLUS; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS DELBRUECKII; LEUCONOSTOC FRUCTOSUM;

EID: 34548755029     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00877.x     Document Type: Article

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