Lepidopterans as model mini-hosts for human pathogens and as a resource for peptide antibiotics

Molecular Biology and Genetics of the Lepidoptera

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 293-306

  Vilcinskas, Andreas ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1201/9781420060201     Document Type: Chapter

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