Repeated in vitro subculturing alters spore surface properties and virulence of Metarhizium anisopliae

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 276, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 60-66

  Shah, Farooq A ^a   Allen, Nadine ^a   Wright, Chris J ^a   Butt, Tariq M ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Attenuation; Hydrophobicity; Metarhizium; Subculturing; Surface charge

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ARTICLE; CONIDIUM; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS SPORE; HYDROPHOBICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SURFACE CHARGE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HYDROPHOBICITY; LARVA; METARHIZIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SPORES, FUNGAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TENEBRIO; VIRULENCE;

METARHIZIUM; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE;

EID: 35448963438     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00927.x     Document Type: Article

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