Symbiotic bacteria in oocyte and ovarian cell mitochondria of the tick Ixodes ricinus: Biology and phylogenetic position

Parasitology Research

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 917-920

  Rymaszewska, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA; ARTHROPOD; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULEX PIPIENS; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; EHRLICHIA; EUKARYOTE; GENE SEQUENCE; IXODES RICINUS; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RICKETTSIA; SYMBIONT; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; IXODES; MITOCHONDRIA; OOCYTES; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

ACARI; ANAPLASMA; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CULEX PIPIENS; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; EHRLICHIA; EUKARYOTA; HAEMAPHYSALIS WELLINGTONI; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 33847613259     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-006-0412-8     Document Type: Review

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