Bacteriocyte-like cells harbour Wolbachia in the ovary of Drosophila melanogaster (Insecta, Diptera) and Zyginidia pullula (Insecta, Hemiptera)

Tissue and Cell

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 328-333

  Sacchi, Luciano ^a   Genchi, Marco ^a   Clementi, Emanuela ^a   Negri, Ilaria ^b   Alma, Alberto ^b   Ohler, Stefan ^c   Sassera, Davide ^d   Bourtzis, Kostas ^e   Bandi, Claudio ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH CENTER ALEXANDER FLEMING   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bacteriocyte; Symbiosis; Ultrastructure; Weismann dogma

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; COEVOLUTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; FEMALE; HEMIPTERA; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; OVARY CELL; PHYLOGENY; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; WOLBACHIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 77956988059     PISSN: 00408166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tice.2010.07.009     Document Type: Article

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