The obligate mutualist Wigglesworthia glossinidia influences reproduction, digestion, and immunity processes of its host, the tsetse fly

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 5965-5974

  Pais, Roshan ^a,b   Lohs, Claudia ^a,c   Wu, Yineng ^a   Wang, Jingwen ^a   Aksoy, Serap ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^c MAX F PERUTZ LABORATORIES   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BIODIVERSITY; BLOOD; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION;

DIPTERA; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATIONS; GLAND SECRETIONS; MATERNAL TRANSMISSIONS; MUTUALISTIC SYMBIOSIS; PCR AMPLIFICATIONS; PHYSIOLOGICALLY; SLEEPING SICKNESSES; SYMBIONT INFECTIONS; TRYPANOSOME INFECTIONS;

SUGAR (SUCROSE);

AMPICILLIN; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN;

ANTIBIOTICS; BIOASSAY; BLOOD; DISEASE VECTOR; ENDOSYMBIONT; FITNESS; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; IMMUNITY; LONGEVITY; MUTUALISM; OBLIGATE BEHAVIOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SECRETION; TSETSE FLY;

ARTICLE; COMMENSAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTION; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNITY; LONGEVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; TSETSE FLY; WIGGLESWORTHIA GLOSSINIDIA; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FERTILITY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURVIVAL; WIGGLESWORTHIA;

AFRICA;

DIPTERA; GLOSSINA (GENUS); GLOSSINIDAE; SODALIS; SODALIS GLOSSINIDIUS; WIGGLESWORTHIA; WIGGLESWORTHIA GLOSSINIDIA;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DIGESTION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEMOGLOBINS; IMMUNITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SYMBIOSIS; TSETSE FLIES; WIGGLESWORTHIA;

EID: 54449091216     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00741-08     Document Type: Article

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