Galleria mellonella as model host for the trans-kingdom pathogen Fusarium oxysporum

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1124-1129

  Navarro Velasco, Gesabel Y ^a   Prados Rosales, Rafael C ^a,b   Ortíz Urquiza, Almudena ^a   Quesada Moraga, Enrique ^a   Di Pietro, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mitogen activated protein kinase; PacC; Virulence; Waxmoth

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN BETA SUBUNIT; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS MUTANT; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; HOST; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INOCULATION; INSECT CELL; KNOCKOUT GENE; LARVA; MOTH; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TOMATO;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FUSARIOSIS; FUSARIUM; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENES, FUNGAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEMOCYTES; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTHS; MUTATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; GALLERIA; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 82555197949     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2011.08.004     Document Type: Article

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