Selective elimination of aphid endosymbionts: Effects of antibiotic dose and host genotype, and fitness consequences

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 229-239

  Koga, Ryuichi ^a   Tsuchida, Tsutomu ^a   Sakurai, Makiko ^a   Fukatsu, Takema ^a  

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

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Essential primary endosymbiont Buchnera; Facultative secondary endosymbiont Serratia symbiotica; Fitness consequences; Pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum; Selective elimination of endosymbionts

Indexed keywords

RIFAMPICIN;

ANTIBIOTICS; APHID; BACTERIUM; ENDOSYMBIONT; FITNESS; GENOTYPE; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION;

ANIMAL CELL; APHID; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BUCHNERA; ENDOSYMBIONT; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENOTYPE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERRATIA; SPECIES COEXISTENCE;

AMPICILLIN; ANIMALS; APHIDS; BUCHNERA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GENOTYPE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; RIFAMPIN; SERRATIA; SYMBIOSIS;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHIDIDAE; CANDIDATUS SERRATIA SYMBIOTICA; HEXAPODA; SERRATIA;

EID: 34247162344     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2007.00284.x     Document Type: Article

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