Insights into the microbial world associated with ants

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 199-206

  Zientz, Evelyn ^a   Feldhaar, Heike ^a   Stoll, Sascha ^a   Gross, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actinomycete; Ants; Atta; Bacteriocyte; Bartonella; Blochmannia; Camponotus; Symbiosis; Tetraponera; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DINITROGENASE REDUCTASE; NITROGEN DERIVATIVE; RIBOSOME DNA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AEROBIC METABOLISM; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ANT; APHID; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BARTONELLA; BIOSYNTHESIS; DIET; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA; FEMINIZATION; FLAVOBACTERIA; FUNGUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME SIZE; GENOMICS; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLUCOSE OXIDATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HYMENOPTERA; INSECT CELL; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; MICROFLORA; MICROORGANISM; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; SALMONELLA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; WOLBACHIA; YERSINIA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANIMALIA; APHIDIDAE; ATTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BARTONELLA; CAMPONOTUS; CANDIDATUS BLOCHMANNIA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA; FLAVOBACTERIA; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; MAMMALIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; SALMONELLA; TETRAPONERA; WOLBACHIA; YERSINIA;

EID: 27744463542     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-005-0041-0     Document Type: Article

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