Previously unrecognized stages of species-specific colonization in the mutualism between Xenorhabdus bacteria and Steinernema nematodes

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1545-1559

  Chaston, John M ^a   Murfin, Kristen E ^a   Heath Heckman, Elizabeth A ^a   Goodrich Blair, Heidi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; INTESTINE; INTESTINE CELL; JUVENILE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEINERNEMA; SYMBIOSIS; XENORHABDUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEMATODA; STEINERNEMA; XENORHABDUS;

EID: 84881544458     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12134     Document Type: Article

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