Localization and transmission route of Coriobacterium glomerans, the endosymbiont of pyrrhocorid bugs

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 373-383

  Kaltenpoth, Martin ^a,b   Winter, Sigrid A ^a   Kleinhammer, Aljoscha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Actinobacteria; Hemiptera; Horizontal transmission; Mutualism; Symbiosis; Vertical transfer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BACTERIUM; EGG PRODUCTION; EGGSHELL; ENDOSYMBIONT; FECES; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; HATCHING; HYBRIDIZATION; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; INSECT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MUTUALISM; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; OVIPOSITION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIONT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORIOBACTERIACEAE; CORIOBACTERIUM GLOMERANS; EGG LAYING; EGG SHELL; ENDOSYMBIONT; FECES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HEMIPTERA; HEMOLYMPH; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANIMALS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENES, RRNA; HETEROPTERA; MALE; OVIPOSITION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORIOBACTERIUM GLOMERANS; DYSDERCUS; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; PYRRHOCORIDAE; PYRRHOCORIS APTERUS; WUPATKIUS SEMO;

EID: 68249098737     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2009.00722.x     Document Type: Article

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