A multilocus approach to assessing co-evolutionary relationships between Steinernema spp. (Nematoda: Steinernematidae) and their bacterial symbionts Xenorhabdus spp. (γ-Proteobacteria: Enterobacteriaceae)

Systematic Parasitology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-12

  Lee, Ming Min ^a   Stock, S Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; HELMINTH DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; NEMATODE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SYMBIOSIS; XENORHABDUS; RHABDITIDA;

ANIMALS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, HELMINTH; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SPECIATION; PHYLOGENY; RHABDITIDA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SYMBIOSIS; XENORHABDUS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; HEXAPODA; NEMATODA; PROTEOBACTERIA; STEINERNEMA; STEINERNEMATIDAE; XENORHABDUS;

EID: 77955548249     PISSN: 01655752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11230-010-9256-9     Document Type: Article

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