The Gut Bacteria of Insects: Nonpathogenic Interactions

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 49, Issue , 2004, Pages 71-92

  Dillon, R J ^a   Dillon, V M ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intestine; Microbiota; Multitrophic; Mutualism; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; COCKROACH; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MUTUALISM; SYMBIOSIS; TERMITE;

ANIMAL; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; INSECT; INTESTINE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PARTHENOGENESIS; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; INSECTS; INTESTINES; MALE; PARTHENOGENESIS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BLATTARIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; ISOPTERA; MICROBIOTA;

EID: 1042302949     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.49.061802.123416     Document Type: Review

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