How diverse is the genus Wolbachia? Multiple-gene sequencing reveals a putatively new Wolbachia supergroup recovered from spider mites (Acari: Tetranychidae)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1036-1043

  Ros, Vera I D ^a,d   Fleming, Vicki M ^b,c   Feil, Edward J ^b   Breeuwer, Johannes A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENES; GENE SEQUENCING; HIGH VARIABILITIES; INTRACELLULAR BACTERIA; MULTIPLE GENES; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES; PARASITE-; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; PROTEIN-CODING GENES; SPIDER MITES;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

GENES;

BACTERIUM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MITE; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TETRANYCHIDAE; WOLBACHIA;

ACARI; ARTHROPODA; BRYOBIA; TETRANYCHIDAE; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 60149102464     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01109-08     Document Type: Article

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