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SUMMARY: Entomopathogenic bacteria of the genus Xenorhabdus produce crystalline inclusion bodies during in vitro culture. When cultured in liquid media, inclusions were present in primary forms but not secondary forms of X. nematophilus. In contrast, both primary and secondary forms of X. luminescens produced inclusion bodies during liquid culture. Two morphologically distinct forms of inclusion bodies were found in X. nematophilus subsp. nematophilus strain All. They were proteinaceous, and one of the proteins (IP-1) was present in seven strains of X. nematophilus subsp. nematophilus, but not in strains of X. nematophilus subsp. poinari, X. nematophilus subsp. poinarii, X. nematophilus subsp. beddingii or X. luminescens. This protein may be useful as a taxonomic indicator. Plasmids were isolated from seven of ten strains of Xenorhabdus. They varied in size from 12 to 3·6 kb, and were present in both primary and secondary forms of X. nematophilus subsp. nematophilus and X. nematophilus subsp. bovienii.
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