The Cry48Aa-Cry49Aa binary toxin from Bacillus sphaericus exhibits highly restricted target specificity

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2418-2424

  Jones, Gareth W ^a   Wirth, Margaret C ^b   Monnerat, Rose G ^c   Berry, Colin ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c EMBRAPA RECURSOS GENÉTICOS E BIOTECNOLOGIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENDOTOXIN;

AEDES; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CULEX; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOSQUITO; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AEDES; ANIMALS; BACILLUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULEX; ENDOTOXINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOSQUITO CONTROL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANOPHELES (GENUS); BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; COLEOPTERA; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 48749114811     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01667.x     Document Type: Article

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