Allelic diversity and population structure of Bacillus sphaericus as revealed by multilocus sequence typing

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 5553-5556

  Ge, Yong ^a,b   Hu, Xiaomin ^a   Zheng, Dasheng ^a   Wu, Yiming ^a   Yuan, Zhiming ^a  

^a WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELIC DIVERSITY; BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; CLONAL POPULATION; GENETIC DIVERSITY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; POPULATION STRUCTURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TOXIN GENES;

BACILLI; BIOASSAY; GENES; LAKES; TOXIC MATERIALS;

BACTERIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; BINB PROTEIN, BACILLUS SPHAERICUS;

ALLELE; BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; HETEROGENEITY; MOSQUITO; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TOXIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOSQUITO; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; CULICIDAE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACILLUS SPHAERICUS;

EID: 79961092772     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00207-11     Document Type: Article

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