Wolbachia: more than just a bug in insects genitals

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 67-72

  Saridaki, Aggeliki ^a   Bourtzis, Kostas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASM; ECOLOGY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENITAL SYSTEM; GENOMICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INSECT; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; CULEX; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 75249104662     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2009.11.005     Document Type: Review

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