Phage WO of Wolbachia: Lambda of the endosymbiont world

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 173-181

  Kent, Bethany N ^a   Bordenstein, Seth R ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKYRIN;

ARTHROPOD; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE WO; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DISEASE CARRIER; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR BACTERIUM; INTRACELLULAR KILLING; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARTHENOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BACTERIOPHAGES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIOPHAGE WO; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 77950857181     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2009.12.011     Document Type: Review

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