One nutritional symbiosis begat another: Phylogenetic evidence that the ant tribe Camponotini acquired Blochmannia by tending sap-feeding insects

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Wernegreen, Jennifer J ^a   Kauppinen, Seth N ^a,d   Brady, Sen G ^b   Ward, Philip S ^c  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; DNA; ENDOSYMBIONT; MUTUALISM; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIOSIS;

APHIDIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CALOMYRMEX; CAMPONOTINI; CAMPONOTUS; CANDIDATUS BLOCHMANNIA; COLOBOPSIS; CUCUMIS MELO VAR. INODORUS; ECHINOPLA; FORMICA; FORMICIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; NOTOSTIGMA; OPISTHOPSIS; PLAGIOLEPIS; POLYRHACHIS; PSEUDOCOCCIDAE; PSYLLIDAE;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 76049092025     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-292     Document Type: Article

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