Increase in midgut microbiota load induces an apparent immune priming and increases tolerance to Bacillus thuringiensis

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2730-2737

  Hernández Martínez, Patricia ^a   Naseri, Bahram ^a,b   Navarro Cerrillo, Gloria ^a   Escriche, Baltasar ^a   Ferré, Juan ^a   Herrero, Salvador ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MOHAGHEGH ARDABILI   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANIMAL; ARMYWORM; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL LOAD; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LARVA; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL LOAD; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LARVA; MALE; SPODOPTERA;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; SPODOPTERA EXIGUA;

EID: 77957310206     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02241.x     Document Type: Article

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