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Bacillus thuringiensis produces several virulence factors, the main ones being the Cry and Cyt toxins, present in the parasporal body produced during sporulation. The Cyt toxins have mechanisms specific for mosquitoes and Cyt1Aa, the most studied cytolytic toxin, is effective for mosquito control by acting in synergism with Cry toxins. The goal of the present work was to study the frequency of the codifying gene for Cyt1Aa in B. thuringiensis native isolates acquired from samples of soil, insect and water, as well as to verify any possible genetic polymorphism. 1,448 B thuringiensis strains were used for DNA extraction and PCR technique, all with the use of a primer that amplifies a fragment of 300 pairs of the cyt1Aa gene. The strains that showed amplification in the PCR reaction were sequenced and compared to each other and to the sequences available at Genbank. 32 (2.3%) strains of B. thuringiensis showed positive amplification for the cyt1Aa gene. The highest frequency of isolates with cyt1Aa gene was acquired from samples coming from the Cerrado biome, both isolates from soil and from insects, equally with 3.4%. The cyt1Aa gene sequencing highlighted that, for that 300 bp region, the gene is conserved and there is no single-base polymorphism. Copyright © 2022. Published by Elsevier B.V.

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Joelma Soares-da-Silva, Maxcilene da Silva de Oliveira, Juliete L Viana, Maria C da Silva, Valéria C S Pinheiro, Gislene A C Zilse, Wanderli P Tadei. Cyt1Aa toxin gene frequency in Bacillus thuringiensis isolates and its relation with pathogenicity for vector mosquitoes. Acta tropica. 2022 Sep;233:106549

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