Horizontal transfer of bacterial symbionts: Heritability and fitness effects in a novel aphid host

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 7987-7994

  Russell, Jacob A ^a,b   Moran, Nancy A ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL LINEAGES; BACTERIAL SYMBIONTS; MATERNAL TRANSMISSION; MICROINJECTION;

BACTERIA;

APHID; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FITNESS; HOST RANGE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; SYMBIONT;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHID; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GROWTH RATE; HERITABILITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MICROINJECTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIONT; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHIDIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 29144529892     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.12.7987-7994.2005     Document Type: Article

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