Role of host nutrition in symbiont regulation: Impact of dietary nitrogen on proliferation of obligate and facultative bacterial endosymbionts of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1362-1366

  Wilkinson, T L ^a   Koga, R ^b   Fukatsu, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; NITROGEN; POPULATION STATISTICS;

POPULATION DENSITY; SYMBIONT REGULATION;

NUTRITION;

NITROGEN;

APHID; ENDOSYMBIONT; HOST; NITROGEN; NUTRITION; POPULATION DENSITY; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHID; ARTICLE; BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POPULATION DENSITY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SERRATIA; SERRATIA SYMBIOTICA; SYMBIONT;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; NITROGEN; PEAS; SERRATIA; SYMBIOSIS;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHIDIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; CANDIDATUS SERRATIA SYMBIOTICA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 33847184231     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01211-06     Document Type: Article

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