Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis of the interactions between honeybee larvae and Paenibacillus larvae, the causative agent of American foulbrood of honeybees (Apis mellifera)

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1612-1620

  Yue, Dominique ^a   Nordhoff, Marcel ^b   Wieler, Lothar H ^b   Genersch, Elke ^a  

^a Institute for Bee Research   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; EPITHELIUM; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PATHOGENICITY;

ANIMALS; BEES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EPITHELIUM; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LARVA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

APIS MELLIFERA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PAENIBACILLUS; PAENIBACILLUS LARVAE;

EID: 43449115676     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01579.x     Document Type: Article

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