TABLE 3.
Competitive colonization with wild-type, ΔopnS, and complemented strains
| Strain mixture | Bacterial recovery (103 CFU/200 IJs)a
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| Wild type
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Complemented strain
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| Wild type | ΔopnS strain | opnS+ strain | ΔopnS strain | |
| 1:1 mixture injected into insects | ||||
| Wild-type and ΔopnS strains plus axenic IJs | 21.0 (2.8) | 1.3 (1.0) | ||
| IJs carrying wild-type strain and IJs carrying ΔopnS strain | 14.8 (2.3) | 0.1 (0.0) | ||
| IJs carrying complemented strain and IJs carrying mutant strain | 13.2 (2.0) | 1.1 (0.9) | ||
| 1:1 mixture, lawn on oily agar | ||||
| Wild-type and ΔopnS strains plus axenic IJs | 6.9 (2.6) | 10.5 (3.8) | ||
a
The values represent the means of experiments performed three times, with standard deviations in parentheses.