Motility is required for the competitive fitness of entomopathogenic Photorhabdus luminescens during insect infection

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Easom, Catherine A ^a,b   Clarke, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CELL MOTILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLUM; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; SYMBIOSIS; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; INSECT; LOCOMOTION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEMATODE; PHOTORHABDUS; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA; PHOTORHABDUS; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MOTA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; MOTB PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FLAGELLA; GENE DELETION; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; INSECTS; LOCOMOTION; NEMATODA; PHOTORHABDUS;

EID: 54049083392     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-8-168     Document Type: Article

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