Cockroaches that lack Blattabacterium endosymbionts: The phylogenetically divergent genus Nocticola

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 327-330

  Lo, Nathan ^a   Beninati, Tiziana ^a   Stone, Fred ^b   Walker, James ^c   Sacchi, Luciano ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Hawaii Community College   (United States)

^c Australian Government Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blattaria; Nocticolidae; Obligate symbiosis; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; HISTONE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RNA 18S;

BACTERIUM; COCKROACH; DATA SET; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RNA; SYMBIOSIS; TERMITE;

ARTICLE; BLATTABACTERIUM CUENOTI; COCKROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; BACTEROIDETES; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BLATTABACTERIUM; BLATTARIA; ISOPTERA; MANTODEA;

ANIMALS; BACTEROIDETES; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; COCKROACHES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HISTONES; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTHERN TERRITORY; PHYLOGENY; QUEENSLAND; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 34848860800     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0614     Document Type: Article

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