Distribution and prevalence of Wolbachia in Japanese populations of Lepidoptera

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 359-364

  Tagami, Y ^a,c   Miura, K ^a,b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR WESTERN REGION   (Japan)

^c Plant Entomology Laboratory   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distribution; Lepidoptera; Prevalence; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENITAL SYSTEM; JAPAN; LEPIDOPTERA; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; GENITALIA; JAPAN; LEPIDOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALIA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; PIERIS RAPAE; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 3943060244     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0962-1075.2004.00492.x     Document Type: Article

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