A spiroplasma associated with tremor disease in the Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis)

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 3035-3040

  Wang, Wen ^a,b   Wen, Bohai ^c   Gasparich, Gail E ^d   Zhu, Ningning ^a,f   Rong, Liwen ^a   Chen, Jianxiu ^b   Xu, Zaikuan ^e  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^d TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e FRESHWATER FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF JIANGSU PROVINCE   (China)

^f INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; DNA EXTRACTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; INOCULATION; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPIROPLASMA; TREMOR;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; BRACHYURA; CELL WALL; CHICK EMBRYO; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; MUSCLES; NEURONS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPIROPLASMA; YOLK SAC;

CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ERIOCHEIR; ERIOCHEIR SINENSIS; GALLUS GALLUS; RICKETTSIA; SPIROPLASMA; SPIROPLASMA MIRUM;

EID: 4844228656     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26664-0     Document Type: Article

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