Bacterial community and nitrogen fixation in the red turpentine beetle, dendroctonus valens LeConte (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 879-891

  Morales Jiménez, Jesús ^a   Zúñiga, Gerardo ^a   Villa Tanaca, Lourdes ^a   Hernández Rodríguez, César ^a  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CELLULOMONAS; CELLULOSIMICROBIUM; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; DENDROCTONUS VALENS; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ERWINIA; HEXAPODA; JANIBACTER; LACTOCOCCUS; LEIFSONIA; PANTOEA; RAHNELLA; SCOLYTINAE; SERRATIA;

ACETYLENE; BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ACETYLENE; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BEETLES; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, BACTERIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE LIBRARY; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 73349105940     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-009-9548-2     Document Type: Article

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