Complete genome sequence of the mosquitocidal bacterium Bacillus sphaericus C3-41 and comparison with those of closely related bacillus species

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2892-2902

  Hu, Xiaomin ^a   Fan, Wei ^b   Han, Bei ^a   Liu, Haizhou ^a   Zheng, Dasheng ^a   Li, Qibin ^b   Dong, Wei ^b   Yan, Jianping ^a   Gao, Meiying ^a   Berry, Colin ^c   Yuan, Zhiming ^a  

^a WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; ENTOMOPATHOGENY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REPLICON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SUGAR TRANSPORT;

BACILLUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORES, BACTERIAL; SYNTENY;

BACILLI (CLASS); BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACILLUS SP.; BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 41949083782     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01652-07     Document Type: Article

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