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Judit Marokhazi1, Nicholas Waterfield, Gaelle LeGoff
1Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, United Kingdom.
Journal of Bacteriology
|July 18, 2003
Abstract:
Photorhabdus is an insect-pathogenic bacterium in which oral toxicity to insects is found in two distinct taxonomic groups. Using a DNA microarray and comparative genomics, we show that oral toxicity is associated with toxin complex genes tcaABC and that this locus can be mobilized or deleted within different strains.
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