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

Autor: Kim IH; Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.; Present address: Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, MD, USA., Aryal SK; Department of Nematology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA., Aghai DT; Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA., Casanova-Torres ÁM; Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA., Hillman K; Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA., Kozuch MP; Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA., Mans EJ; Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.; Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, USA., Mauer TJ; Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.; Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, USA., Ogier JC; DGIMI, INRA, Université de Montpellier, 34095, Montpellier, France., Ensign JC; Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA., Gaudriault S; DGIMI, INRA, Université de Montpellier, 34095, Montpellier, France., Goodman WG; Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA., Goodrich-Blair H; Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA. hgblair@utk.edu.; Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, USA. hgblair@utk.edu., Dillman AR; Department of Nematology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA. adlerd@ucr.edu.

Publikováno v: BMC genomics [BMC Genomics] 2017 Dec 01; Vol. 18 (1), pp. 927. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Dec 01.