Culture-independent characterization of the microbiota of the ant lion Myrmeleon mobilis (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 8784-8794

  Dunn, Anne K ^a   Stabb, Eric V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE SEQUENCE; GUT TISSUES; INSECT PREY; MICROBIOTA;

BACTERIA; FLUORESCENCE; GENES; INSECT CONTROL; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE;

BIODIVERSITY;

RNA 16S;

ANT; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEEDING ECOLOGY; LARVA; SYMBIONT;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANT LION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; INSECT; INTESTINE; LARVA; MICROFLORA; MYRMELEON MOBILIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDATION; PROTEOBACTERIA; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE SIMILARITY; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WOLBACHIA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANTS; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MYRMELEON MOBILIS; MYRMELEONTIDAE; NEUROPTERA; PROTEOBACTERIA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 29144466065     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.12.8784-8794.2005     Document Type: Article

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