The insect pathogenic bacterium Xenorhabdus innexi has attenuated virulence in multiple insect model hosts yet encodes a potent mosquitocidal toxin

BACKGROUND: Xenorhabdus innexi is a bacterial symbiont of Steinernema scapterisci nematodes, which is a cricket-specialist parasite and together the nematode and bacteria infect and kill crickets. Curiously, X. innexi expresses a potent extracellular mosquitocidal toxin activity in culture supernata...

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Autores principales: Kim, Il-Hwan, Aryal, Sudarshan K., Aghai, Dariush T., Casanova-Torres, Ángel M., Hillman, Kai, Kozuch, Michael P., Mans, Erin J., Mauer, Terra J., Ogier, Jean-Claude, Ensign, Jerald C., Gaudriault, Sophie, Goodman, Walter G., Goodrich-Blair, Heidi, Dillman, Adler R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5709968/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29191166
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-4311-4

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