Molecular characterization of virulence defects in Bacillus thuringiensis mutants

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 280, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 127-134

  Wang, Jinhong ^a   Steggles, James R ^a,b   Ellar, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ABCAM PLC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacillus thuringiensis; Horizontal gene transfer; Transposon Tn4430; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INSERTION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; MANDUCA SEXTA; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; MANDUCA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; MANDUCA SEXTA;

EID: 38849101721     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.01061.x     Document Type: Article

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