Evidence for low-titre infections in insect symbiosis: Wolbachia in the bark beetle Pityogenes chalcographus (Coleoptera, Scolytinae)

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1923-1933

  Wolfgang, Arthofer ^a   Markus, Riegler ^b,c   Dimitrios N , Avtzis ^a   Christian, Stauffer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; WSP PROTEIN, WOLBACHIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIOSIS; WEEVIL; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIOSIS; WEEVILS; WOLBACHIA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; PICEA; PITYOGENES CHALCOGRAPHUS; SCOLYTINAE; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 68249132058     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.01914.x     Document Type: Article

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