Wolbachia infections are distributed throughout insect somatic and germ line tissues

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 153-160

  Dobson, Stephen L ^a   Bourtzis, Kostas ^a,b   Braig, Henk R ^a   Jones, Brian F ^a   Zhou, Weiguo ^a   Rousset, François ^a,c   O'Neill, Scott L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^c GDPC   (France)

Author keywords

Aedes albopictus; Cadra cautella; Culex pipiens; dnaA; Drosophila melanogaster; Drosophila simulans; Glossina morsitans; Wolbachia pipientis; WSP antibody

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX PIPIENS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA DETERMINATION; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENETICS; GONAD; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INSECT; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; WESTERN BLOTTING; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DROSOPHILA; GONADS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CADRA CAUTELLA; CULEX PIPIENS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; GLOSSINA MORSITANS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOGASTER; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIALES; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS;

EID: 0033083924     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(98)00119-2     Document Type: Article

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