Evidence for metabolic provisioning by a common invertebrate endosymbiont, wolbachia pipientis, during periods of nutritional stress

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Brownlie, Jeremy C ^a   Cass, Bodil N ^a   Riegler, Markus ^a   Witsenburg, Joris J ^a   Iturbe Ormaetxe, Inaki ^a   McGraw, Elizabeth A ^a   O'Neill, Scott L ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST; IRON OVERLOAD; IRON RESTRICTION; MALE; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STRESS; STRESS; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; FERTILITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FERTILITY; IRON; MALE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 66449088887     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000368     Document Type: Article

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