Wolbachia infections of tephritid fruit flies: Molecular evidence for five distinct strains in a single host species

Current Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 255-260

  Jamnongluk, Wanwisa ^a,b   Kittayapong, Pattamaporn ^a   Baimai, Visut ^a   O'Neill, Scott L ^b,c  

^a Mahidol University   (Thailand)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; FEMINIZATION; HOST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARTHENOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RICKETTSIOSIS; SEQUENCE DATABASE; WOLBACHIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TEPHRITIDAE;

ARTHROPODA; BACTROCERA ASCITA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; NEGIBACTERIA; WOLBACHIA;

PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TEPHRITIDAE; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 0036782602     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-002-3746-1     Document Type: Article

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