Beneficial effect of verminephrobacter nephridial symbionts on the fitness of the earthworm aporrectodea tuberculata

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 4738-4743

  Lund, Marie B ^a,b   Holmstrup, Martin ^a   Lomstein, Bente A ^a   Damgaard, Christian ^a   Schramm, Andreas ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Environmental Earth System Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENEFICIAL EFFECTS; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; COW DUNG; HATCHING SUCCESS; LIFE HISTORY; LUMBRICIDAE; NITROGEN RETENTION; OLIGOCHAETA; SEXUAL MATURITY; TOTAL NITROGEN; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

AMINO ACIDS; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; NUTRITION; ORGANIC ACIDS;

ORGANIC CARBON;

AMINO ACID; BACTERIUM; COCOON; DIET; EARTHWORM; FECUNDITY; FITNESS; GROWTH RATE; HATCHING; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATURATION; NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; SYMBIONT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; COMAMONADACEAE; FERTILITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; OLIGOCHAETA;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; COMAMONADACEAE; FERTILITY; OLIGOCHAETA; SYMBIOSIS;

APORRECTODEA; APORRECTODEA TUBERCULATA; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; LUMBRICIDAE;

EID: 77954708890     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00108-10     Document Type: Article

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