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

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

Abstract 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 s...

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Main Authors: Il-Hwan Kim, Sudarshan K. Aryal, Dariush T. Aghai, Ángel M. Casanova-Torres, Kai Hillman, Michael P. Kozuch, Erin J. Mans, Terra J. Mauer, Jean-Claude Ogier, Jerald C. Ensign, Sophie Gaudriault, Walter G. Goodman, Heidi Goodrich-Blair, Adler R. Dillman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-12-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Subjects:
Virulence
Toxin
Symbiosis
Insect
Immunity
NRPS/PKS
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-017-4311-4

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