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A model of insect—pathogen dynamics in which a pathogenic bacterium can also reproduce saprophytically

1999-02-07

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We developed a model of the population dynamic interaction between an insect and a pathogenic bacterium motivated by study of Serratia entomophila, a commercially exploited pathogen of the New Zealand grass grub (Costelytra zealandica). The bacterium is able to reproduce saprophytically, though it competes for saprophytic substrates with non-pathogenic strains, which appear to be superior competitors, probably bec...

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Literature Corpus work: 947e7895-8097-50f9-94a0-fd424f845180
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0627
PMCID: PMC1689679

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