Biology of bacteriocyte-associated endosymbionts of plant sap-sucking insects

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue , 2005, Pages 155-189

  Baumann, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Buchnera; Carsonella; Endosymbiotic associations; Portiera; Trembalya

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; APHID; BACTERIAL CELL; BIOLOGY; DNA DETERMINATION; DOMESTICATION; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; REVIEW; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; XYLEM SAP;

ANIMALS; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HEMIPTERA; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

ALEYRODIDAE; APHIDIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BUCHNERA (PROTEOBACTERIA); CANDIDATUS CARSONELLA; CANDIDATUS PORTIERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOCOCCIDAE; PSYLLIDAE; STERNORRHYNCHA;

EID: 27144454498     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.59.030804.121041     Document Type: Review

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