A preliminary survey for Wolbachia and bacteriophage WO infections in Indian mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae)

Tropical Biomedicine

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 384-393

  Ravikumar, H ^a   Ramachandraswamy, N ^a   Sampathkumar, S ^a   Prakash, B M ^a   Huchesh, H C ^a   Uday, J ^a   Puttaraju, H P ^a  

^a BANGALORE UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; INDIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOSQUITO; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIROLOGY; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOPHAGES; CULICIDAE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; INDIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 78650768940     PISSN: 01275720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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