Novel chlamydiae in whiteflies and scale insects: Endosymbionts 'Candidatus Fritschea bemisiae' strain Falk and 'Candidatus Fritschea eriococci' strain Elm

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1581-1587

  Everett, Karin D E ^a   Thao, MyLo ^b   Horn, Matthias ^c   Dyszynski, Glen E ^d   Baumann, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENDOSYMBIONT; FAMILY; FRITSCHEA BEMISIAE; FRITSCHEA ERIOCOCCI; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; INSECT; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CHLAMYDIALES; HEMIPTERA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RRNA OPERON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

ALEYRODIDAE; BEMISIA ARGENTIFOLII; BEMISIA TABACI; CANDIDATUS; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CHLAMYDIAE; CHLAMYDIAE (CLASS); CHLAMYDIALES; ERIOCOCCUS; FRITSCHEA; FRITSCHEA BEMISIAE; FRITSCHEA ERIOCOCCI; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; PARACHLAMYDIACEAE; SIMKANIACEAE; ULMUS;

EID: 22544445895     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.63454-0     Document Type: Article

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