Endosymbionts of ticks and their relationship to Wolbachia spp. and tick-borne pathogens of humans and animals

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 3926-3932

  Noda, Hiroaki ^a   Munderloh, Ulrike G ^b   Kurtti, Timothy J ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN SOFT TICK; BACTERIAL PATHOGEN; BLACK-LEGGED TICK; BROWN DOG TICK; ENDOSYMBIONT; TICK-BORNE DISEASE;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; INSECT; KIDNEY TUBULE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS; TICK;

ACARI; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMALIA; ARGAS; ARGAS ARBOREUS; ARGASIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANIS FAMILIARIS; COXIELLA BURNETII; FRANCISELLA; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HAEMAPHYSALIS LONGICORNIS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDAE; MALPIGHIA; ORNITHODOROS MOUBATA; PERSICARGAS; PERSICARGAS ARBOREUS; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RICKETTSIA; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA PERSICA;

EID: 0030879879     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.10.3926-3932.1997     Document Type: Article

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