The diversity of insect-bacteria interactions and its applications for disease control

Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 203-244

  Sanchez Contreras, Maria ^a   Vlisidou, Isabella ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTS; SYMBIOSIS; VIRULENCE; WOLBACHIA;

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; MICROORGANISMS;

EUKARYOTICS; GENOMICS; HOST IMMUNE RESPONSE; INSECT POPULATION; ITS APPLICATIONS; NEW HOSTS; PATHOGENICS; PROKARYOTIC MICROORGANISM; SYMBIOTICS;

DISEASE CONTROL;

ENDOTOXIN; GAMMA ENDOTOXIN; INSECT PROTEIN; INSECTICIDE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; PROTEIN LOPT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETATIVE INSECTICIDAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE CONTROL; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENTOMOPATHOGENY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FLY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INSECT; INSECT CONTROL; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL PEST CONTROL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOSQUITO; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORHABDUS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSGENIC CROP; WOLBACHIA; XENORHABDUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 56249110617     PISSN: 02648725     EISSN: 20465556     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5661/bger-25-203     Document Type: Article

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