Ankyrin repeat domain-encoding genes in the wPip strain of Wolbachia from the Culex pipiens group

BMC Biology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Walker, Thomas ^a   Klasson, Lisa ^a   Sebaihia, Mohammed ^b   Sanders, Mandy J ^b   Thomson, Nicholas R ^b   Parkhill, Julian ^b   Sinkins, Steven P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKYRIN; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX PIPIENS; CYTOPLASM; EGG; ENDOSYMBIONT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; MOSQUITO; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROPHAGE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WOLBACHIA; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; CULEX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIOSIS;

CULEX PIPIENS; HEXAPODA; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; ANKYRIN REPEAT; CULEX; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 35648945780     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-5-39     Document Type: Article

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