Facultative symbionts in aphids and the horizontal transfer of ecologically important traits

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 55, Issue , 2010, Pages 247-266

  Oliver, Kerry M ^a   Degnan, Patrick H ^b   Burke, Gaelen R ^b   Moran, Nancy A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Endosymbiont; Hamiltonella defensa; Mutualism; Regiella insecticola; Rickettsia; Serratia symbiotica

Indexed keywords

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHIDIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; CANDIDATUS HAMILTONELLA DEFENSA; CANDIDATUS REGIELLA INSECTICOLA; CANDIDATUS SERRATIA SYMBIOTICA; FUNGI; PISUM SATIVUM; RICKETTSIA; SERRATIA;

ANIMAL; APHID; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MICROBIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; PHENOTYPE; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 77249155344     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-112408-085305     Document Type: Review

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