Thorsellia anophelis is the dominant bacterium in a Kenyan population of adult Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes

ISME Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 74-82

  Briones, Aurelio M ^a   Shililu, Josephat ^b   Githure, John ^b   Novak, Robert ^c   Raskin, Lutgarde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Anopheles; Kenya; Paratransgenics; Rice paddy; Thorsellia

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARSENOPHONUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; THORSELLIA; THORSELLIA ANOPHELIS;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KENYA; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; MOSQUITO; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; CULICIDAE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; KENYA; LARVA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 41149111582     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2007.95     Document Type: Article

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