Insight into the routes of Wolbachia invasion: High levels of horizontal transfer in the spider genus Agelenopsis revealed by Wolbachia strain and mitochondrial DNA diversity

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 557-569

  Baldo, Laura ^a   Ayoub, Nadia A ^a   Hayashi, Cheryl Y ^a   Russell, Jacob A ^b   Stahlhut, Julie K ^c   Werren, John H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Endosymbiont; Horizontal transmission; MLST; Spider

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SPIDER; UNITED STATES; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PHYLOGENY; SPIDERS; UNITED STATES; VARIATION (GENETICS); WOLBACHIA;

AGELENOPSIS; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; DIPLURIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; PROTEOBACTERIA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 38149100914     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03608.x     Document Type: Article

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