Absence of the symbiont candidatus midichloria mitochondrii in the mitochondria of the tick ixodes holocyclus

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 299, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 241-247

  Beninati, Tiziana ^a   Riegler, Markus ^b   Vilcins, Inger Marie E ^c   Sacchi, Luciano ^d   McFadyen, Raelene ^b   Krockenberger, Mark ^a   Bandi, Claudio ^e   O'Neill, Scott L ^b   Lo, Nathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mitochondria; Multiple infections; Rickettsiales; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CANDIDATUS MIDICHLORIA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IXODES; IXODES HOLOCYCLUS; MITOCHONDRION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY CELL CULTURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIONT; TICK; VERTEBRATE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IXODES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); IXODES HOLOCYCLUS; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIALES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70349246851     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01757.x     Document Type: Article

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