On the taxonomic status of the intracellular bacterium Wolbachia pipientis: Should this species name include the intracellular bacteria of filarial nematodes?

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1677-1678

  Pfarr, Kenneth M ^a   Foster, Jeremy ^b   Slatko, Barton ^b   Hoerauf, Achim ^a   Eisen, Jonathan A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b Molecular Parasitology Division   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; DNA FRAGMENT;

ARTHROPOD; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FILARIA; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; LARVA; LETTER; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS;

ANIMALS; FILARIOIDEA; WOLBACHIA;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRUGIA MALAYI; ENDOBACTERIA; MANSONELLA; NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS;

EID: 34548157013     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.65248-0     Document Type: Letter

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