Potential applications of insect symbionts in biotechnology

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1567-1577

  Berasategui, Aileen ^a   Shukla, Shantanu ^a   Salem, Hassan ^a   Kaltenpoth, Martin ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biotechnology; Incompatible insect technique; Mutualism; Paratransgenesis; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; DISEASE CONTROL; ECOLOGY; ENZYMES; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS;

BIOTECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; ECOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS; ESSENTIAL NUTRIENTS; INCOMPATIBLE INSECT TECHNIQUE; MUTUALISM; PARATRANSGENESIS; SYMBIOSIS; SYMBIOTIC INTERACTION;

INSECT CONTROL;

CHEMICAL COMPOUND;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; DISEASE CONTROL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INSECT; MUTUALISM; PEST CONTROL; SYMBIONT;

AGRICULTURAL PEST; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DISEASE CARRIER; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INSECT; INSECT CONTROL; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; INSECTS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84958756840     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: 14320614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-015-7186-9     Document Type: Review

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