Infection dynamics of coexisting beta- and gammaproteobacteria in the nested endosymbiotic system of mealybugs

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 4175-4184

  Kono, Marie ^a,b   Koga, Ryuichi ^a   Shimada, Masakazu ^b   Fukatsu, Takema ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; DYNAMICS;

AMERICAN SOCIETY; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENDOSYMBIOTIC; EVOLUTION (CO); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFECTION DYNAMICS; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE PCR; REPRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; COEXISTENCE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENDOSYMBIONT; EVOLUTION; HYBRIDIZATION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INSECT; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CLADISTICS; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; FEMALE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MEALYBUG; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANOCOCCUS KRAUNHIAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOCOCCUS COMSTOCKI; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; FEMALE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENES, RRNA; GROEL PROTEIN; HEMIPTERA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NYMPH; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CANDIDATUS TREMBLAYA PRINCEPS; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HEXAPODA; PLANOCOCCUS (BACTERIUM); PLANOCOCCUS (INSECT); PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOCOCCIDAE; PSEUDOCOCCUS;

EID: 46949091391     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00250-08     Document Type: Article

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