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Table 1 Comparative properties of some mosquitocidal strains of B. sphaericus a
Strain Origin Source
Flagellar
serotype
Phage
type
DNA
group
RNA
group
Fatty acid
group
Mosquitocidal
activity b
Crystal (Bin)
genes c
Mtx genes
1 2 3
Kellen K, Q USA Culiseta incidens 1a 1 IIA ? AIII Low þ þ þ
BS-197 India ? 1a ? ? ? ? High þ þ þ þ
SSII-1 India Culex fatigans 2a,2b 2 IIA RIIA AII Moderate þ þ þ
IAB 881 Ghana Culex sp. breeding site 3 d ? ? AV High 1 þ ? ?
LP1-G Singapore Mosquito breeding site 3 8 IIA ? ? Moderate 4 e ? ?
1593 Indonesia Culex fatigans 5a,5b 3 IIA RIIA AIII High 2 þ þ ?
2362 Nigeria Simulium damnosum 5a,5b 3 IIA RIIA AIII High 2 þ þ þ
1691 El Salvador Anopheles albimanus 5a,5b 3 IIA ? ? High 2 þ þ þ
IAB 59 Ghana Anopheles gambiae 6 3 ? ? ? High 1 þ þ þ
31 Turkey Mosquito breeding site 9a,9c 8 ? ? ? Low þ þ þ
2314-2 Thailand ? 9a,9b d IIA ? ? Low þ þ þ
2297 Sri Lanka Culex pipiens 25 4 IIA RIIA AV High 3 þ þ þ
2173 (ISPC5) India Culex fatigans 26a,26b d IIA ? AIII Moderate
IAB 872 Ghana Culex sp. breeding site 48 3 ? ? ? High 1 þ þ þ
aData compiled from Krych et al. (1980), Yousten et al. (1980), de Barjac et al. (1985), Alexander and Priest (1990), Frachon et al. (1991), Guerineau et al. (1991), Thanabalu et al. (1991),
Liu et al. (1996a,1996b), Thanabalu and Porter (1995, 1996), Priest et al. (1997), Humphreys and Berry (1998), and from data of the IEBC Collection (Pasteur Institute). þ: present; : absent;
?: no information available.
bBased on the lethal concentration 50% (LC50) onCulex pipiens fourth instars.
cBased on the deduced amino-acid sequences, when known (see also Table 2).
d
Strains not responding to any of the bacteriophages tested.
e following the original publication (Humphreys and Berry, 1998); þ following Z. Yuan, personal communication.