Conidiation color mutants of Aspergillus fumigatus are highly pathogenic to the heterologous insect host Galleria mellonella

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Jackson, Jennifer C ^a   Higgins, Laura A ^a   Lin, Xiaorong ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; TRICYCLAZOLE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GERMINATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MELANOGENESIS; METABOLITE; MOTH; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; ASPERGILLOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLOR; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PIGMENTATION; RHIZOBIUM;

ANIMALIA; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; COLOR; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MELANINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTHS; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PIGMENTATION; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; THIAZOLES;

EID: 64149120666     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004224     Document Type: Article

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