Status of the "east side hypothesis" (Transovarial Interference) 25 years later

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1166, Issue , 2009, Pages 144-150

  Telford III, Sam R ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bitterroot Valley; Dermacentor; Interference; Rickettsia; Rickettsia peacockii; Rickettsia rickettsii; Rocky Mountain spotted fever; Ticks; Transovarial transmission

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; EPITHELIUM CELL; GERM LINE; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LARVA; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROCLIMATE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGENY; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA JAPONICA; RICKETTSIA SIBIRICA; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; SPECIES HABITAT; TICK; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

DERMACENTOR; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA PEACOCKII; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; RICKETTSIACEAE;

EID: 67649834239     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04522.x     Document Type: Article

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