Transcriptional profiling of the endosymbiont Blochmannia floridanus during different developmental stages of its holometabolous ant host

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 877-888

  Stoll, Sascha ^a   Feldhaar, Heike ^a   Gross, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPONOTUS; CAMPONOTUS FLORIDANUS; CANDIDATUS BLOCHMANNIA; CANDIDATUS BLOCHMANNIA FLORIDANUS;

EID: 63849089870     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01808.x     Document Type: Article

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