Virulence and pathogen multiplication: A serial passage experiment in the hypervirulent bacterial insect-pathogen Xenorhabdus nematophila

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Chapuis, Élodie ^a   Pagès, Sylvie ^b   Emelianoff, Vanya ^a   Givaudan, Alain ^b   Ferdy, Jean Baptiste ^c  

^a CENTRE DE BIOLOGIE ET DE GESTION DES POPULATIONS   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN FLHDC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL LINEAGE; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENETIC TRAIT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REGULON; XENORHABDUS NEMATOPHILA; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INSECT; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE; VIRUS CULTURE; XENORHABDUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; XENORHABDUS; XENORHABDUS NEMATOPHILA;

ANIMALS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; INSECTS; REGULON; SERIAL PASSAGE; VIRULENCE; XENORHABDUS;

EID: 79551616342     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015872     Document Type: Article

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