Bacterial Gut Symbionts Contribute to Seed Digestion in an Omnivorous Beetle

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Lundgren, Jonathan G ^a   Lehman, R Michael ^a  

^a NORTH CENTRAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BENEFICIAL INSECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE LIBRARY; INTESTINE FLORA; MALE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLLICUTES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OMNIVORE; PLANT SEED; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA SEQUENCE; SYMBIONT; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ACHETA DOMESTICUS; ANIMALIA; BACILLI (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CARABIDAE; CHENOPODIUM ALBUM; COLEOPTERA; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HARPALUS PENSYLVANICUS; HEXAPODA; MOLLICUTES;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BEETLES; DIGESTION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETIC VARIATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEEDS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 77956285100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010831     Document Type: Article

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