Molecular analysis of microbial communities identified in different developmental stages of Ixodes scapularis ticks from Westchester and Dutchess Counties, New York

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 761-772

  Moreno, Claudia X ^a   Moy, Fred ^a   Daniels, Thomas J ^a,b   Godfrey, Henry P ^a   Cabello, Felipe C ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; IXODES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEW YORK; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

ACARI; ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALIA; BABESIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES SCAPULARIS; MAMMALIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; RALSTONIA; RHODOCOCCUS; RICKETTSIA; UNCULTURED PROTEOBACTERIUM;

EID: 33645451883     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00955.x     Document Type: Article

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