Relevance of the endosymbiosis of Blochmannia floridanus and carpenter ants at different stages of the life cycle of the host

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 6027-6033

  Zientz, Evelyn ^a   Beyaert, Ivo ^a   Gross, Roy ^a   Feldhaar, Heike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; ANTIBIOTICS; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYME KINETICS; METABOLISM;

CAMPONOTUS FLORIDANUS; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NITROGEN RECYCLING; SYMBIOSIS;

GENES;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AROMATIC AMINO ACID; NITROGEN; TYROSINE;

AMINO ACID; ANT; BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; LIFE CYCLE; METABOLISM; NITROGEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIOSIS;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ANT; ARTICLE; ASPC GENE; BACTERIAL GENE; BLOCHMANNIA FLORIDANUS; CAMPONOTUS FLORIDANUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLNA GENE; HISC GENE; HOST; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PUPATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPEB GENE; TYRA GENE; UREC GENE; UREF GENE;

CAMPONOTUS; CAMPONOTUS FLORIDANUS; CANDIDATUS BLOCHMANNIA; CANDIDATUS BLOCHMANNIA FLORIDANUS;

EID: 33748782226     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00933-06     Document Type: Article

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