Heads or tails: Host-parasite interactions in the Drosophila-Wolbachia system

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 5366-5372

  Veneti, Zoe ^a,e   Clark, Michael E ^d   Karr, Timothy L ^d,f   Savakis, Charalambos ^a,b   Bourtzis, Kostas ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CYTOLOGY; GENES; RNA;

ARTHROPODS; CYTOPLASMIC INCOMPATIBILITY; EMBRYONOGENES; ENDOSYMBIOTIC BACTERIA;

BACTERIA;

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BICOID; PROTEIN OSCAR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTHROPOD; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; EVOLUTION; GENE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PREDICTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; WOLBACHIA; WSP GENE;

ANIMALS; BLASTODERM; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MORPHOGENESIS; OVARY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WOLBACHIA;

ARACHNIDA; ARTHROPODA; ASTRONOTUS OCELLATUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 4644257120     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.9.5366-5372.2004     Document Type: Article

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