Shrimp, as a high-protein animal food commodity, are one of the fastest growing food
producing sectors in the world. It has emerged as a highly traded seafood product, currently …

The development and use of entomopathogens as classical, conservation and augmentative
biological control agents have included a number of successes and some setbacks in the …

The 69 kb plasmid pVPA3-1 was identified in Vibrio parahaemolyticus strain 13‑028/A3 that
can cause acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (AHPND). This disease is responsible …

Soil-and plant-associated environments harbor numerous bacteria that produce antibiotic
metabolites with specific or broad-spectrum activities against coexisting microorganisms …

Actinomycetes are historically important sources for secondary metabolites (SMs) with
applications in human medicine, animal health, and plant crop protection. It is now clear that …

Biocontrol success when using entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) in the genera
Heterorhabditis and Steinernema relies on a variety of factors including components of the …

Functional analysis of genome sequences requires methods for cloning DNA of interest.
However, existing methods, such as library cloning and screening, are too demanding or …

Horizontal gene transfer is an important mechanism for the evolution of microbial genomes.
Pathogenicity islands—mobile genetic elements that contribute to rapid changes in …

Abstract Repeats-in-toxin (RTX) exoproteins of Gram-negative bacteria form a steadily
growing family of proteins with diverse biological functions. Their common feature is the …

It is generally believed that exchange of secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters
(BGCs) among closely related bacteria is an important driver of BGC evolution and …