Molecular approaches to study the insect gut symbiotic microbiota at the 'omics' age

Insect Science

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 199-219

  Shi, Weibing ^a,b   Syrenne, Ryan ^a   Sun, Jian Zhong ^c   Yuan, Joshua S ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology ^*  (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

DGGE; Insect gut; Metagenomics; Metaproteomics; Symbiotic microbiota; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA;

EID: 77954154688     PISSN: 16729609     EISSN: 17447917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7917.2010.01340.x     Document Type: Review

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