Phylogeny of Wolbachia in filarial nematodes

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 265, Issue 1413, 1998, Pages 2407-2413

  Bandi, Claudio ^a   Anderson, Tim J C ^b   Genchi, Claudio ^a   Blaxter, Mark L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brugia; Dirofilaria; ftsZ gene; Onchocerca; Symbiosis; Wuchereria

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRUGIA; DIROFILARIA; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; FILARIA; NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCA; PROKARYOTA; RICKETTSIA; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIEAE; WUCHERERIA;

EID: 0032559054     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1998.0591     Document Type: Article

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