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Motility is required for the competitive fitness of entomopathogenic Photorhabdus luminescens during insect infection

BACKGROUND: Photorhabdus are motile members of the family Enterobactericeae that are pathogenic to insect larvae whilst also maintaining a mutualistic interaction with entomophagous nematodes of the family Heterorhabditiae. The interactions between Photorhabdus and its hosts are thought to be an obl...

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Autores principales: Easom, Catherine A, Clarke, David J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2569044/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18834522
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-8-168