An intracellular symbiont and other microbiota associated with field-collected populations of sawflies (Hymenoptera: Symphyta)

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 758-768

  Graham, Robert I ^a,d   Zahner, Viviane ^b   Lucarotti, Christopher J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Endosymbiont; Hymenoptera; Sawflies; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; COLLOIDS; ELECTROPHORESIS; GELATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS;

BACTERIA; ENDOSYMBIONT; HYMENOPTERA; SAWFLIES; WOLBACHIA;

COSMIC RAYS;

DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; DNA; DOMINANCE; ELECTROKINESIS; FLY; GEL; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; TAXONOMY;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CANADA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA EXTRACTION; ENDOSYMBIONT; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HYMENOPTERA; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DOMINANCE; SYMBIONT; TAXONOMY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BACTERIOPHAGES; CANADA; HYMENOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DIPRIONIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; PAMPHILIIDAE; PRISTIPHORA GENICULATA; PROTEOBACTERIA; SYMPHYTA; TENTHREDINIDAE; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 51549097943     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/W08-067     Document Type: Article

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