Aerobic and facultative anaerobic bacteria from gut of red palm weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus)

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1432-1437

  Khiyami, Mohammad ^a   Alyamani, Essam ^a  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ CITY FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

16S rDNA; Date palm; Microbiota; Red palm weevil

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA 16S;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; AMPLICON; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; CULTURE MEDIUM; DATE (FRUIT); DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; ENTEROCOCCUS; EXPRESSION VECTOR; INTESTINE FLORA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RED PALM WEEVIL; SALMONELLA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TREE; WEEVIL; XANTHOMONAS;

BACILLUS SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS SP.; HEXAPODA; PHOENIX DACTYLIFERA; RHYNCHOPHORUS FERRUGINEUS; SALMONELLA SP.; XANTHOMONAS SP.;

EID: 44649132695     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16845315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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