Nutritional upgrading for omnivorous carpenter ants by the endosymbiont Blochmannia

BMC Biology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Feldhaar, Heike ^a   Straka, Josef ^a   Krischke, Markus ^b   Berthold, Kristina ^a   Stoll, Sascha ^a   Mueller, Martin J ^b   Gross, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; ALANINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ASPARTIC ACID; ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; METHIONINE; NITROGEN 15; PHENYLALANINE; UREA; UREASE; WATER; AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL DNA;

ANT; ARTICLE; BLOCHMANNIA; COCKROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DOMESTICATION; EGG; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HONEY; INTESTINE FLORA; LARVA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OMNIVORE; PROTEIN INTAKE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; CHEMISTRY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENETICS; HEMOLYMPH; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BLATTARIA; CAMPONOTUS; CAMPONOTUS FLORIDANUS; CANDIDATUS BLOCHMANNIA; CANDIDATUS BLOCHMANNIA FLORIDANUS;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; ANTS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; HEMOLYMPH; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 38349144037     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-5-48     Document Type: Article

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