Despite the importance of microbial natural products for human health, only a few bacterial
genera have been mined for the new natural products needed to overcome the urgent threat …

The control of insects of medical importance, such as Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus
are still the only effective way to prevent the transmission of diseases, such as dengue …

Genus assignment is fundamental in the characterization of microbes, yet there is currently
no unambiguous way to demarcate genera solely using standard genomic relatedness …

Two Gram-negative insect pathogens, Xenorhabdus nematophila and Photorhabdus
luminescens, produce rhabduscin, an amidoglycosyl-and vinyl-isonitrile-functionalized …

Several slug species are highly pestiferous and threaten global sustainable agriculture.
Current control methods rely heavily on metaldehyde pellets, which are often ineffective …

The current crop of antibiotics in clinical use are either natural products or their derivatives.
However, the rise of a multitude of different antibiotic resistant human pathogens has meant …

Insects are the largest group of animals on earth. Like mammals, virus, fungi, bacteria and
parasites infect them. Several tissue barriers and defense mechanisms are common for …

Mounting concern over the misuse of chemical pesticides has sparked broad interest for
safe and effective alternatives to control plant pests and pathogens. Xenorhabdus bacteria …

Natural products have been proven to be important starting points for the development of
new drugs. Bacteria in the genera Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus produce antimicrobial …

Entomopathogenic bacteria from the genera Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus are closely
related Gram-negative bacilli from the family Enterobacteriaceae (γ-Proteobacteria). They …