An ultrastructural and molecular study of Tubulinosema kingi Kramer (Microsporidia: Tubulinosematidae) from Drosophila melanogaster (Diptera: Drosophilidae) and its parasitoid Asobara tabida (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 158-167

  Franzen, Caspar ^a   Futerman, Pete H ^b   Schroeder, Josef ^c   Salzberger, Bernd ^a   Kraaijeveld, Alex R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asobara; Drosophila; Microsporidia; Phylogenetic analysis; rRNA; Tubulinosema kingi; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; HYMENOPTERA; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSPORIDA; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA GENE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WASP;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES, RRNA; HYMENOPTERA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSPORIDIA; PHYLOGENY; WASPS;

ASOBARA; ASOBARA TABIDA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRACONIDAE; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIUM; MICROSPORUM;

EID: 33644825401     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: 10960805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2005.11.007     Document Type: Article

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