Molecular Systematics of the Entomopathogenic Bacteria Bacillus popilliae, Bacillus lentimorbus, and Bacillus sphaericus
Bacillus popilliae and B. lentimorbus, causative agents of milky disease in Japanese beetles and related scarab larvae, have been differentiated based upon a small number of phenotypic characteristics, but they have not previously been examined at the molecular level. Thirty-four isolates of these b...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30717 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-81798-11537/ |