Anthropogenic action shapes the evolutionary ecology of Bacillus thuringiensis: response to Ruan et al

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biological Sciences (DCB), State University of Santa Cruz (UESC), Ilhéus-BA, Brazil. Electronic address: leandro@uesc.br.
² Department of Biological Sciences (DCB), State University of Santa Cruz (UESC), Ilhéus-BA, Brazil.

Comment

Leandro L Loguercio et al. Trends Microbiol. 2015 Sep.

. 2015 Sep;23(9):519-20.

doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2015.06.002. Epub 2015 Jul 7.

¹ Department of Biological Sciences (DCB), State University of Santa Cruz (UESC), Ilhéus-BA, Brazil. Electronic address: leandro@uesc.br.
² Department of Biological Sciences (DCB), State University of Santa Cruz (UESC), Ilhéus-BA, Brazil.

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Keywords: Bacillus ecology; Cry genes; endophytic colonization; insecticidal proteins; open pangenome; paratenic hosts.

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