Wolbachia are present in Southern African scorpions and cluster with supergroup F

Current Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 367-373

  Baldo, Laura ^a   Prendini, Lorenzo ^b   Corthals, Angelique ^c   Werren, John H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Endosymbiont; MLST; Opistophthalmus; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AFRICA; ARACHNID; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CELL LINEAGE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FILARIA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST; INSECT; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORPION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; WOLBACHIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SCORPIONS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOUTH AFRICA; VARIATION (GENETICS); WOLBACHIA;

ARACHNIDA; ARTHROPODA; CHELICERATA; HEXAPODA; NEMATODA; OPISTOPHTHALMUS; SCORPIONES; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 35148812309     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-007-9009-4     Document Type: Article

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