Enhanced UV resistance and improved killing of malaria mosquitoes by photolyase transgenic entomopathogenic fungi

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Fang, Weiguo ^a   St Leger, Raymond J ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTOLYASE; DNA; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; PYRIMIDINE DIMER;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BEAUVERIA BASSIANA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNGUS; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; INCUBATION TIME; INSECT CONTROL; MALARIA; METARHIZIUM; METARHIZIUM ROBERTSII; MICROBIAL PEST CONTROL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOLYASE GENE; PHYSICAL TOLERANCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SAFETY; SOLAR RADIATION; SUNLIGHT; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; BACKGROUND RADIATION; BEAUVERIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEOXYRIBODIPYRIMIDINE PHOTO-LYASE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; METARHIZIUM; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PYRIMIDINE DIMERS; SPORES, FUNGAL; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84865091749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043069     Document Type: Article

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