Variations in the mosquito larvicidal activities of toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis ssp. israelensis

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2191-2199

  Otieno Ayayo, Zachariah Ngalo ^a,b,f   Zaritsky, Arieh ^a   Wirth, Margaret C ^c   Manasherob, Robert ^a,d   Khasdan, Vadim ^a   Cahan, Rivka ^b   Ben Dov, Eitan ^a,e  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e ACHVA ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

^f University of Eastern Africa   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENDOTOXIN; HEMOLYSIN; INSECTICIDAL CRYSTAL PROTEIN, BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS;

ANIMAL; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; LARVA; LD 50; MICROBIOLOGY; MOSQUITO; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULICIDAE; ENDOTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; LARVA; LETHAL DOSE 50; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CYANOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 48749118045     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01696.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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