The Genetic Basis of the Symbiosis Between Photorhabdus and Its Invertebrate Hosts

Advances in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 88, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-29

  Clarke, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bioluminescence; Genomics; Heterorhabditis; Mutualism; Pathogenicity; Phenotypic bistability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC REGULATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INSECT; JUVENILE ANIMAL; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NEMATODE LIFE CYCLE STAGE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHOTORHABDUS; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; SYMBIOSIS;

BIOLUMINESCENCE; GENOMICS; HETERORHABDITIS; MUTUALISM; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPIC BISTABILITY;

ANIMALS; NEMATODA; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORHABDUS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84899157333     PISSN: 00652164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800260-5.00001-2     Document Type: Chapter

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