Biological role of Nardonella endosymbiont in its weevil host

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Kuriwada, Takashi ^a   Hosokawa, Takahiro ^b   Kumano, Norikuni ^a   Shiromoto, Keiko ^a   Haraguchi, Dai ^a   Fukatsu, Takema ^b  

^a Okinawa Prefectural Plant Protection Center Miyakojima   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; FEMALE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MATING; NARDONELLA; NONHUMAN; SWEET POTATO; WEEVIL;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; IPOMOEA BATATAS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIOSIS; WEEVILS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS NARDONELLA; CURCULIONIDAE; CYLAS FORMICARIUS; EUSCEPES POSTFASCIATUS; HEXAPODA; IPOMOEA BATATAS;

EID: 78049279802     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013101     Document Type: Article

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