Local adaptation of an introduced transgenic insect fungal pathogen due to new beneficial mutations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 51, 2011, Pages 20449-20454

  Wang, Sibao ^a   O'Brien, Tammatha R ^a   Pava Ripoll, Monica ^a   St Leger, Raymond J ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Biocontrol; Entomopathogenic fungi; Soil fungi; Transgenic microbes

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN MAD2; TATA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL WALL; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA MICROARRAY; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE MUTATION; HABITAT; LOCAL ADAPTATION; METARHIZIUM; METARHIZIUM ROBERTSII; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INSECTS; METARHIZIUM; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSGENES;

FUNGI; HEXAPODA; METARHIZIUM;

EID: 84862940699     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1113824108     Document Type: Article

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