Environmental factors determining the epidemiology and population genetic structure of the bacillus cereus group in the field

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1-13

  Raymond, Ben ^a,b   Wyres, Kelly L ^b   Sheppard, Samuel K ^b   Ellis, Richard J ^c   Bonsall, Michael B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GENOTYPE; HABITAT; INSECT; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PREVALENCE; SEEDLING; ALLELE; ANIMAL; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BRASSICA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT CONTROL; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SEROTYPING;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS CEREUS GROUP; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BRASSICA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOTYPE; INSECT CONTROL; INSECTS; PESTICIDES; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; SEROTYPING; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 77954197782     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000905     Document Type: Article

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