Endosymbiotic bacteria in the parasitic ciliate Ichthyophthirius multifiliis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 7445-7452

  Sun, H Y ^a,b   Noe, J ^a   Barber, J ^a   Coyne, R S ^c   Cassidy Hanley, D ^d   Clark, T G ^d   Findly, R C ^a   Dickerson, H W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; 16S RRNA GENE SEQUENCE; DNA PRODUCTS; ENDOSYMBIOTIC BACTERIUM; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FRESHWATER FISHES; LIFE HISTORY; PCR AMPLIFICATION; PCR PRODUCTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMPLIFICATION; BACTERIOLOGY; CELLS; CLONING; CYTOLOGY; DNA; DNA SEQUENCES; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RNA; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BACTERIA;

4',6 DIAMIDINO 2 PHENYLINDOLE; DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; CILIATE; CYTOPLASM; ENDOSYMBIONT; LIFE HISTORY; PARASITE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CILIATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOSYMBIONT; EUKARYOTIC FLAGELLUM; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FRESHWATER FISH; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; ICHTHYOPHTHIRIUS MULTIFILIIS; MACRONUCLEUS; MICRONUCLEUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIALES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPHINGOBACTERIA; STAINING; THERONT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TROPHONT;

ANIMALS; CILIOPHORA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOPLASM; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FLAVOBACTERIUM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RICKETTSIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPHINGOBACTERIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; FLAVOBACTERIUM COLUMNARE; ICHTHYOPHTHIRIUS MULTIFILIIS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIALES; SPHINGOBACTERIA; SPHINGOBACTERIALES;

EID: 72949109340     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00850-09     Document Type: Article

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