Intracellular endosymbiotic bacteria of Camponotus species (carpenter ants): Systematics, evolution and ultrastructural characterization

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 479-489

  Schröder, Doris ^a   Deppisch, Heike ^a   Obermayer, Malu ^a   Krohne, Georg ^a   Stackebrandt, Erko ^b   Hölldobler, Bert ^a   Goebel, Werner ^a   Gross, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE LOCUS; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIOSIS;

ANT ENDOSYMBIONTS; APHIDIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPONOTUS; CAMPONOTUS FLORIDANUS; CAMPONOTUS HERCULEANUS; CAMPONOTUS LIGNIPERDUS; CAMPONOTUS RUFIPES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FORMICIDAE; GLOSSINA (PROPER); HEXAPODA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0029830099     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02557.x     Document Type: Article

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