Detection and identification of a novel lactic acid bacterial flora within the honey stomach of the honeybee Apis mellifera

Current Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 356-363

  Olofsson, Tobias C ^a   Vásquez, Alejandra ^a  

^a Lund University Campus Helsingborg ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENE SEQUENCE; HONEYBEE; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS; LARVA; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BEES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GENOTYPE; HONEY; LACTIC ACID; LACTOBACILLUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BIFIDOBACTERIUM; LACTOBACILLUS;

EID: 50249182791     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-008-9202-0     Document Type: Article

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