Metabolic interdependence of obligate intracellular bacteria and their insect hosts

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 745-770

  Zientz, Evelyn ^a   Dandekar, Thomas ^a   Gross, Roy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL MOLECULE TRANSPORT AGENT;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOCHMANNIA; BUCHNERA; CELL ORGANELLE; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; GENE STRUCTURE; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLYCOLYSIS; HOST CELL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INSECT; MACROMOLECULE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE CYCLE; PHOSPHOLIPID SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RESPIRATORY CHAIN; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS; TSETSE FLY; WIGGLESWORTHIA;

APHIDIDAE; ARACHNIDA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS BLOCHMANNIA; EUKARYOTA; FORMICIDAE; GLOSSINA (PROPER); HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PROKARYOTA; WIGGLESWORTHIA;

EID: 10344264978     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.68.4.745-770.2004     Document Type: Review

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