The red flour beetle as a model for bacterial oral infections.

The red flour beetle as a model for bacterial oral infections.

Experimental infection systems are important for studying antagonistic interactions and coevolution between hosts and their pathogens. The red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum and the spore-forming bacterial insect pathogen Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) are widely used and tractable model organisms. H...

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Main Authors: Barbara Milutinović, Clemens Stolpe, Robert Peuβ, Sophie A O Armitage, Joachim Kurtz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3667772?pdf=render

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