"candidatus Cryptoprodotis polytropus," A novel Rickettsia-like organism in the ciliated protist pseudomicrothorax dubius (ciliophora, nassophorea)

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 119-129

  Ferrantini, Filippo ^a   Fokin, Sergei I ^a,b   Modeo, Letizia ^a   Andreoli, Ilaria ^a   Dini, Fernando ^a   GÖrtz, Hans Dieter ^c   Verni, Franco ^a   Petroni, Giulio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endosymbiont; FISH; Parasitism; Phylogeny; Piscirickettsia; Protozoa RLO; SSU rDNA; SSU rRNA; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; RNA 16S; RNA 18S;

BACTERIUM; CAUSE OF DEATH; CILIATE; DISEASE VECTOR; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST RANGE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE; PARASITE; PARASITISM; PHYLOGENETICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYMBIOSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CILIATE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RICKETTSIACEAE; RNA GENE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CILIOPHORA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENES, RRNA; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; ITALY; PHYLOGENY; RICKETTSIACEAE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; INVERTEBRATA; NASSOPHOREA; ORIENTIA; PISCIRICKETTSIA; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA; PSEUDOMICROTHORAX DUBIUS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIACEAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 64249106322     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: 15507408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2008.00377.x     Document Type: Article

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