Identification of flagellar motility genes in Yersinia ruckeri by transposon mutagenesis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 6630-6633

  Evenhuis, Jason P ^a   LaPatra, Scott E ^b   Verner Jeffreys, David W ^c   Dalsgaard, Inger ^d   Welch, Timothy J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR COOL AND COLD WATER AQUACULTURE   (United States)

^b CLEAR SPRINGS FOODS INC   (United States)

^c CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLAR MOTILITY; LIPASE ACTIVITY; RAINBOW TROUT; TRANSPOSON MUTAGENESIS;

TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

BIOTYPE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MUTAGENICITY; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOTYPE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME RELEASE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; RAINBOW TROUT; SECRETION; TRANSPOSON; YERSINIA RUCKERI;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FISH DISEASES; FLAGELLA; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LIPASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; OPEN READING FRAMES; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA RUCKER;

ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; YERSINIA RUCKERI;

EID: 70349908263     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01415-09     Document Type: Article

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