Intracellular symbionts of sharpshooters (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadellinae) form a distinct clade with a small genome

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 116-126

  Moran, Nancy A ^a   Dale, Colin ^a   Dunbar, Helen ^a   Smith, Wendy A ^a   Ochman, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HEMIPTERA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

APHIDIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BAUMANNIA; BAUMANNIA CICADELLINICOLA; CICADELLIDAE; CICADELLINAE; FORMICIDAE; GAMMA-3 PROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GLOSSINA (PROPER); HEMIPTERA; HOMALODISCA; HOMALODISCA COAGULATA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSYLLIDAE;

EID: 0037297631     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00391.x     Document Type: Article

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