Nardonella endosymbiont in the West Indian sweet potato weevil Euscepes postfasciatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Applied Entomology and Zoology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 115-120

  Hosokawa, Takahiro ^a   Fukatsu, Takema ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacterial endosymbiont; Euscepes postfasciatus; Ipomoea batatas; Nardonella

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS NARDONELLA; COLEOPTERA; CRYPTORHYNCHINAE; CURCULIONIDAE; CYLAS FORMICARIUS; EUSCEPES POSTFASCIATUS; HEXAPODA; IPOMOEA BATATAS; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 77953893016     PISSN: 00036862     EISSN: 1347605X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1303/aez.2010.115     Document Type: Article

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