Diversity and host specificity of the Verminephrobacter-earthworm symbiosis

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2142-2151

  Lund, Marie B ^a   Davidson, Seana K ^b   Holmstrup, Martin ^a   James, Sam ^c   Kjeldsen, Kasper U ^a   Stahl, David A ^b   Schramm, Andreas ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; COMAMONADACEAE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; COMAMONADACEAE; DNA, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; OLIGOCHAETA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SYMBIOSIS;

ANNELIDA; APORRECTODEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; LUMBRICIDAE; LUMBRICUS; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA);

EID: 77955246430     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.02084.x     Document Type: Article

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