Identification and localization of a Rickettsia sp. in Bemisia tabaci (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 3646-3652

  Gottlieb, Yuval ^a   Ghanim, Murad ^a   Chiel, Elad ^b   Gerling, Dan ^c   Portnoy, Vitaly ^a   Steinberg, Shimon ^b   Tzuri, Galil ^a   Horowitz, A Rami ^a   Belausov, Eduard ^a   Mozes Daube, Neta ^a   Kontsedalov, Svetlana ^a   Gershon, Moshe ^c   Gal, Shunit ^c   Katzir, Nurit ^a   Zchori Fein, Einat ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b Bio Bee Biological Systems   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; CELLS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLUORESCENCE; FOOD PROCESSING; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

BEMISIA TABACI; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATIONS (FISH); MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR FINGERPRINTING;

INSECT CONTROL;

BACTERIUM; FISH; HYBRIDIZATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHENOTYPE; WHITEFLY;

ARSENOPHONUS; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOTYPE; CARDINIUM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FRITCHEA; HAMILTONELLA; HATCHING; HEMOLYMPH; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INTESTINE; ISRAEL; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; SCREENING; SWEET POTATO WHITEFLY; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; TECHNIQUE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GLUTAMATE SYNTHASE; HEMIPTERA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ALEYRODIDAE; ARSENOPHONUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BEMISIA TABACI; CANDIDATUS CARDINIUM; CANDIDATUS PORTIERA ALEYRODIDARUM; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA SP.; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 33646552387     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.5.3646-3652.2006     Document Type: Article

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