Host-Pathogen Interactions: Proline Gives Insect Pathogens the Green Light

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Waterfield, Nick ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROLINE;

ANIMAL; BLOOD CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; INSECT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHOTORHABDUS; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; VIRULENCE; XENORHABDUS;

ANIMALS; HEMOCYTES; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INSECTS; PHOTORHABDUS; PROLINE; VIRULENCE; XENORHABDUS;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 73449115364     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.11.018     Document Type: Short Survey

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