Asaia, a versatile acetic acid bacterial symbiont, capable of cross-colonizing insects of phylogenetically distant genera and orders

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3252-3264

  Crotti, Elena ^a   Damiani, Claudia ^b   Pajoro, Massimo ^c   Gonella, Elena ^c   Rizzi, Aurora ^a   Ricci, Irene ^b   Negri, Ilaria ^c   Scuppa, Patrizia ^b   Rossi, Paolo ^b   Ballarini, Patrizia ^b   Raddadi, Noura ^a,c   Marzorati, Massimo ^a,f   Sacchi, Luciano ^d   Clementi, Emanuela ^d   Genchi, Marco ^d   Mandrioli, Mauro ^e   Bandi, Claudio ^a   Favia, Guido ^b   Alma, Alberto ^c   Daffonchio, Daniele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^f GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID;

ACETOBACTERACEAE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETICS; HEMIPTERA; INSECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOSQUITO; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SYMBIOSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACETIC ACID; ACETOBACTERACEAE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CULICIDAE; DISEASE VECTORS; HEMIPTERA; INSECTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SYMBIOSIS;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ASAIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS PHYTOPLASMA; HEXAPODA; SCAPHOIDEUS TITANUS; VITIS;

EID: 71249163814     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.02048.x     Document Type: Article

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