Wolbachia infections in the Cimicidae: Museum specimens as an untapped resource for endosymbiont surveys

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 3161-3167

  Sakamoto, Joyce M ^a   Feinstein, Julie ^b   Rasgon, Jason L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DNA; GENES; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; RNA;

ARTHROPODS; ENDOSYMBIONTS; FILARIAL NEMATODES; PRIMERS;

BACTERIA;

RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTHROPOD; BACTERIAL DISEASE; NEMATODE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CIMICIDAE; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; INVERTEBRATE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA GENE; SCREENING; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; CIMICIDAE; DNA, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSEUMS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

ARTHROPODA; CIMEX LECTULARIUS; CIMICIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; POLYCTENIDAE; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 33646541968     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.5.3161-3167.2006     Document Type: Article

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